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By a wide margin, Ecuador has exceeded the government's goal for internet connections. At the beginning 2018, 55.6 percent of the population had direct internet access through 10.6 million accounts. Three years ago, the government’s Communication Technologies Plan had...
Miércoles, 21/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Exhibit - A show of work by students in their 3d cycle at the Dep't of Arts in the U. of Cuenca opened Wednesday at the Municipal Casa de las Posadas. Free. Articles about - Historia de...
Exploring. I do lot of it. On foot in the high mists or behind the wheel of my truck taking on some rock-strewn and rutted clay road, I’m out there in it all the time. I am living in, performing photography and writing about Ecuador. This is a portion of my grand...
Better days are ahead for Ecuador’s real estate and construction industry, experts say. In Cuenca, real estate agents say the turn-around is already underway. Ecuador’s Housing and Urban Development Minister Adrián Sandoya confirmed Tuesday that the administration of...
Martes, 20/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda event - Morlaquita - The Department of Culture at the U. Católica de Cuenca announced that registrations are open for the Morlaquita 2018 contest. This beauty contest is part of the history and...
By Susan Burke March The Journal of Wild Mushrooming is a fascinating resource for all things mushrooms. They say there are 10,000 described species in North American and at least as many in South America, but that may represent only a third to a fifth of what’s...
For the second time in three days, Ecuadorian soldiers came under gunfire from suspected drug traffickers in Esmeraldas Province, on the Colombian border. Ecuador’s military command claims that the aggressors are former FARC guerrillas who now work for Colombian and...
Lunes, 19/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Conversatorio - There will be a conversation on the life and work of the Cuecano saint, Hermano Miguel el próximo miércoles a las 19:00 in the Museo de las Conceptas. Free. Articles about - Juan...
By Nicholas Carr I have received innumerable emails and texts from panicked parents worried that they may be failing in what has become the central challenge of modern parenting: ensuring that children grow up to be well adapted to the realtime environment. These...
A taxi driver and passengers detained the drunk driver of a city bus on Wednesday. The taxi driver blocked the bus’ path after the he noticed it weaving erratically in traffic. Then, passengers pulled the driver out of his seat and held him until police arrived. The...
Domingo, 4/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda event - Capulí - Kleber Rivas has a natural laboratory in the community of Ayaloma or Loma del Muerto (Hill of Death) in Nabón where he offers grafts of capulí for cultivation. This ancestral fruit...
I love Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson is a genius who managed to take the thoughts out of my head (and countless others') and put them to paper in a way that almost everyone could laugh at. What some people may not know is that he named the strip after John...
Although the focus of last week’s meeting between Ecuador and Colombia was on controlling drug trafficking near the border and dealing with the flood of immigrants from Venezuela, it also delivered good news to travelers. One of the agreements signed Friday guarantees...
The renovation of Cuenca’s San Francisco Plaza is on schedule to meet its July completion date, according to Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera. The project contractor said the project is 45 percent complete. During a Saturday tour of the project, Cabrera said he was...
Friday, February 23 will be the first anniversary of my living in Cuenca. Following is a letter to a dear friend describing my flight and early impressions of Ecuador, which also became my first article for CuencaHighLife. I have yet to find the words to thank the...
Cuba and Ecuador have signed an agreement in the field of higher education that provides for strengthened academic cooperation. The agreement,in the framework of the 11th International Conference on Higher Education 'Universidad 2018', provides for mutual recognition...
Beginning March 31, Ecuador residents will be able to make cash transactions through the country’s new digital wallet, or electronic money system. The system, which will be administered by private banks and financial cooperatives, replaces a similar program...
The Cuenca transportation office says that almost 26,000 pre-paid fare cards have been sold to users of the city’s public bus system. In addition, 8,000 have been distributed free to students, the elderly and to people with disabilities. Besides the pre-loaded value,...
Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro, announced that he will attend the Summit of the Americas “at all costs” to bring “the truth of the country” at a press conference at the presidential palace in Caracas despite the Peruvian government reported that his presence...
Jueves, 15/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda event Cursos - the Tersicore Dance Academy is offering courses in ballet, Arabic dance <My belly doesn't need classes - just walking makes it jiggle. You wonder why women wear tight jeans?> and...
