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President Daniel Noboa begins a 13-day visit to China, Singapore and Vietnam, which includes “meetings of critical importance” with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese officials. He is scheduled to arrive in Beijing Sunday. According to Minister of Production Luis...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 13/8) 7 jornadas gratuitas de cine ecuatoriano (7 days of free Ecuadorian films) - The Día de Cine Ecuatoriano will be observed with 7 days of free films between el 12 & 21/8. The films include fiction, documentaries and short...
By Anthony Cuthbertson It is meant to be humanity’s last invention. The moment a general-purpose AI is able to outthink the greatest human minds, then all future discoveries and scientific advancements will be made by machines rather than people. It is also supposed...
Editor's note: The interview with Lady Pink was recorded in 2025, prior to her exhibit at the D’Stassi Art Gallery in London. By Jacopo Nuvolari A trailblazer in the world of street art, Lady Pink has been making her mark on the international graffiti scene for four...
By Imogen Piper, Ellen Nakashima, Samantha Schmidt, Samuel Oakford, Warren P. Strobel, Alex Horton and Aaron Schaffer The mysterious strikes targeting multiple Ecuadorian fishing boats near the Galápagos Islands this year were carried out as part of a covert CIA...
United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is calling on countries of the Coalition Against the Cartels of the Americas (A3C) to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), of which Ecuador is a member. Prominent legal experts warn against such a...
There is an entire subgenre of Cuenca literature devoted to determining when a foreigner has finally arrived. You have really arrived when you stop complaining about the buses. You have really arrived when you stop converting every price into dollars, although that is...
By Erica Sweeney Q: I often feel burning in my chest after meals or when I lie down, but I never know which over-the-counter heartburn medication to take. What will work best? It’s the burning sensation that rises from your stomach into your chest, stings your throat...
Sunbathers at Cojimíes in Manabí Province watched with curiosity Sunday as a small boat approached the beach at high speed. “It is unusual to see motorboats going this fast near the shore and we wondered what they were doing when they pulled their boat onto the sand,”...
By Mateo Palacios Ecuador has emerged as one of the world's most important logistics hubs for cocaine trafficking, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), which published its World Drug Report 2026 in late June. The document, based on...
By D.T. Max This past April, in a nondescript examining room in Glendale, California, molecular biologist David Sinclair watched as an ophthalmologist injected a small amount of a substance Sinclair helped invent, called ER-100, into the left eye of a man with...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del martes, 11/8) Invitan a almuerzo solidario (Invitation to a charity lunch) - The Hogar Cristo Rey will have a benefit lunch el 23/8 starting a las 10:00 to raise funds for the seniors who live in the institution. The lunch will be at...
When I arrived at JFK airport in New York on July 3rd, 1980, I had never crossed the Atlantic before. I had left England earlier that day and was on my way to what turned out to be a new life overseas. I remember looking around the airport and having a distinctly...
By Ross Roberts If you are moving to Cuenca from North America, you will quickly fall in love with the cobblestone streets, the $3 almuerzos, and the spring-like weather. You will not, however, fall in love with your shower on day one. In fact, after six months of...
The smell of grilled meat wafts through the shanty town of Guamá. Its riverside favelas are among Brazil’s poorest, but on a recent weekday residents cooked steak and shrimp on their porches. “Life isn’t easy,” says Alex Lima, a shopkeeper who sells coxinha pasties...
By Haley Fuller An Ecuadorian prosecutor investigating alleged attacks on civilian fishing boats, disappearances and mistreatment, potentially involving U.S. personnel, was shot to death with her sister while leaving a café in Manta on June 14. Almost two months after...
At least 132 people have died, and 570 have been injured as a result of the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck earlier Monday, according to the Colombian Association of Capital Cities, which earlier took part in an disaster response meeting with the president. The...
The turning point in expat life is not when Cuenca changes. It is when the questions you ask begin to change. Beginning to belong in Cuenca often starts when the questions we ask begin to change. Margaret knew what the next sentence was going to be before anyone said...
By Cory Doctorow Neoclassical economics assumes rationality. The corollary of "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus it is that many people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing...
By Catherina Gioino A new U.S. Federal Reserve survey offers a somber look at how young Americans are getting by: with a lot of help from their parents, from paying a phone bill to even living at home. The data comes from the Fed's Report on the Economic Well-Being of...
Week of August 23
Ecuador’s economy grew 2% during the first half of 2026 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to new Banco Central del Ecuador data.
Cuenca gets a prime view of next week’s deep partial lunar eclipse.
Ecuador’s economy grows 2% in the first half of 2026.
