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French shoppers go nuts for Nutella

French shoppers go nuts for Nutella

A discount on Nutella has led to violent scenes in a chain of French supermarkets as shoppers jostled to grab a steep bargain on the sweet spread. Intermarché supermarkets offered a 70% discount on Nutella, bringing the price down from €4.50 (£3.90) to €1.40. But...

Influenza 2018: Too late for protection?

Influenza 2018: Too late for protection?

By Susan Burke March According to the World Health Organization (WHO) the 2018 flu season is upon us, most virulently in North America and Australia where influenza A (H3N2) remains predominant and activity remains high. In the Caribbean and Central American countries...

Top six reasons everyone should do yoga

Top six reasons everyone should do yoga

Every morning you’ll find me walking on the Rio Tomebamba. I try and make my walking hour aerobic, and use my walking sticks to “pump it up,” (you wouldn’t believe the strange looks I get — I guess I’m the strange-looking one). When I return home I try and stretch for...

Potential legal troubles mount for Correa

Potential legal troubles mount for Correa

By Esteban Cordero Balarezo Ex-president Rafael Correa faces up to 150 law suits and more may be on the way. The cases that have been filed and processed by the Judicial Function of Ecuador (www.funcionjudicial.gob.ec) deal primarily with claims for financial losses...

Calle Gran Colombia

Calle Gran Colombia

A couple of years ago, shortly after moving to Ecuador, we took an apartment on Calle Gran Colombia. It is a busy street, in the middle of El Centro, that is also the home of Cuenca’s unfinished Tranvia system’s west bound rails. Many storefronts abound in this area...

Cuenca artist Magy Peña transforms garbage into objects of beauty

Cuenca artist Magy Peña transforms garbage into objects of beauty

By Michel Blanchard Magy (pronounced Mah-djee) Peña is a woman on a mission. To be more precise, her mission is to recycle garbage, but not by putting it in neat blue bags for city sanitation workers to pick up. She transforms rubbish into art. She is a pioneer and a...

Friends, food, wine and music at my doorstep

Friends, food, wine and music at my doorstep

When I moved to my apartment 4½ years ago there was only one restaurant close by and it never caught my fancy. Now, when I'm hungry and don't want to cook, I can walk out my front door, cross the street onto the Rio Tomebamba footbridge, and voila! — there are two...

Does diet affect your immune system?

Does diet affect your immune system?

By Susan Burke March Do you love fast food? Maybe you think that just “once in a while” indulgence in animal-fatty, salty and processed foods such as a big beef burger on a white-bread bun with deep-fried fries is your deserved payment for eating healthfully most of...

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The Cuenca Dispatch

Week of April 05

Legal storm builds over Ecuador’s moved-up local elections.

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Ecuador issues nationwide mpox alert after first Clade Ib case.

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Big power users switch to self-generation as Ecuador protects household electricity supply.

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Fabianos Pizzeria News

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