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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) announced Thursday that it would not join negotiations with the government until three conditions are met. Conaie, Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization, criticized other indigenous and campesino organizations...
By Mark Bradbury My beautiful country of Ecuador is in turmoil, not in shambles as some would have you believe, but we are definitely going through some very trying times right now. For over 40 years, Ecuador has been subsidizing gasoline and diesel fuels, propane gas...
Jueves, 10/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Effects on museums and cultural venues - Museums are closed with employees working behind closed doors and via the internet. The OSC has suspended the Festival Viva Viladi (sic). It is rehearsing...
By Mark Mahoney As societal pressures ramp on a daily basis, our states of mind and outlook on life are tempered by many factors. A new decades-long epidemiologic research study identifies a strong correlational (not causal) association between optimism and...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said city government will be open for business on Thursday, a day after a nationwide strike led to violent clashes between protesters and police in the historic district. In addition to the strike, Wednesday was a national holiday honoring...
Miércoles, 9/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Eurocine 2019 - Films are being shown all week a las 18:00 y 20:00 at the Alianza Francesa. Free. Festival rescheduling - The Primer Festival del Folclore "Los Andes Viven" will be changed from...
By Rob Bell The streets are almost deserted today in many parts of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third largest city with six hundred thousand inhabitants. Schools are closed. Most stores are closed. Roads in and out of the city are blocked by protestors. Supermarket shelves are...
Almost four years ago, I caught a bus for line #19 and rode it to its termination point west of Cuenca. It was a year before our truck, El Fantasma, would make his berth wherever Edie and I went. I entered the Yanuncay Valley on foot that day by way of Via Soldados,...
Wednesday’s national strike has brought out the largest protest crowds yet in the week-long reaction to the government’s labor reforms. The strike coincides with the Guayaquil independence national holiday. An estimated 40,000 marched in several locations in Quito,...
Police say that new tactics and light rain helped to reduce the number of protesters in the streets of Cuenca’s historic district on Tuesday. They also credit a new strategy of moving crowds farther away from Parque Calderon for fewer and more peaceful demonstrations....
Martes, 8/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Fan Toy Fest - This national convention will be in Cuenca in noviembre and feature action figures, dolls and other toys on exhibit or for sale or for exchange. Otras cosas - Titular - Cunde el caos;...
By Robin Emmott Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa denied on Tuesday he was orchestrating a coup against the government from his self-imposed exile in Belgium, after being accused of stoking the worst unrest in years in the Andean oil producer. Protests over an...
Former Guayaquil mayor Jaime Nebot is rejecting the economic reforms announced last week by President Lenin Moreno, including the elimination of gasoline and diesel subsidies. It is the first time that Nebot, considered one of the favorites in the 2021 presidential...
President Lenin Moreno flew to Guayaquil Monday afternoon, saying he needed to be closer to Ecuador's military command to best manage the country's political crisis. In a television address, the president again offered to talk with protesters although he insisted...
Ecuador’s interior ministry says it is mobilizing tens-of-thousands of national police and army troops to clear roadblocks that have paralyzed travel in much of the country. Manned by campesino and indigenous groups protesting economic measures announced last week by...
By Mark Weisbrot When people think of the damage that wealthy countries – typically led by the US and its allies – cause to people in the rest of the world, they probably think of warfare. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died from the 2003 invasion, and then many more...
By Gina Kolata Public health officials for years have urged Americans to limit consumption of red meat and processed meats because of concerns that these foods are linked to heart disease, cancer and other ills. But on Monday, in a remarkable turnabout, an...
By Chunka Mui I want to scream “You’re not helping!” every time I read a story like this one, which recently ran in USA Today: “End of civilization: climate change apocalypse could start by 2050 if we don't act, report warns.” I certainly worry about what might befall...
Ecuador’s transportation unions announced Friday night that they are ending their two-day work stoppage and that the country’s taxis and buses will return to service effective immediately. The president of the National Federation of Transport Cooperatives, Abel Gómez,...
Although protests in Cuenca’s historic district resumed late Friday morning as expected, the number of participants was down sharply from Thursday. A national police estimate put the number of active protesters at 500 as of late Friday afternoon, a drop from more than...
Week of October 25
Ecuador heads into a four-day November holiday built around Cuenca’s Independence Day.
El Niño’s early rains have already affected more than 30,000 people across Ecuador.
Exporters press Constitutional Court to move three major trade agreements forward
