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By Gideon Long In the first week of this year, Peru’s Keiko Fujimori posted a family photograph on Twitter showing her seated next to her father Alberto, the country’s authoritarian former president. To Alberto’s left was Keiko’s younger brother Kenji, his arm...
By Fernando Pagés Ruiz The first thing that strikes you about the prominent billboard, when you make the turn onto Via a la Costa — the highway to the coast — that takes you from Guayaquil to the beach resort towns along the Pacific shoreline of Ecuador, is the price:...
Delegates from Bolivia and Chile are headed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague on Monday morning, where they will present their arguments over a disputed 380 kilometer coastline on the Pacific Ocean. Relations between Bolivia and Chile have been...
Domingo, 25/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Complejo de Todo Santos - You can visit the complex from martes a sábado, a las 8-18:00. The tourist route will take you into the church <recently restored>, terrace, patrimonial garden,...
My mother's moving soon. Before my next column. So I need to say what I need to say here this week. I'm proud of her. Very proud. She's been struggling for the last couple of years since my father died. They had been together for over 50 years and even though he...
Last week’s deadly attack on Ecuadorian marines patrolling the Colombian border prompted an emergency Saturday meeting of the Binational Border Commission at the Tulcán military base. Three marines died as a result of a roadside bomb police say was planted by drug...
There are few conditions that scream with such volume or shrill insistence as being employed in the information media business. There are deadlines to meet and important stories that need telling, right now. Urgency becomes common. Common becomes rare. Rare becomes...
By Markku Sario For a taste of something different, you must try Namaste India, at Calle Larga 8-81 y Benigno Malo. The entrance is very modest, with typical Cuencano small café signage out front, but the inside is a delightful surprise. A short hallway opens up into...
Ecuador’s high court ruled last week that a 2015 law ending government funding for the country’s Social Security (IESS) system was unconstitutional and ordered the contribution to resume in 2019. Not everyone is happy with the decision, however. “We are pleased that...
Viernes, 23/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - They have all started or are finished. There was a Hip-Hop concert <Which I'm guessing is not the type of venue most of you frequent anyway.> and a showing of the movie "Santa Elena en...
A mummified skeleton discovered in Chile's Atacama Desert 15 years ago doesn't look like anyone you've ever met. In fact, some would say it looks, well, alien. It's a skeletal conundrum made up of perplexing features. It's only 6 inches tall -- but initial estimates...
Although Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has committed more resources to combating drug trafficking on its southern border with Ecuador, some officials say the response is not enough. Santos called President Lenin Moreno following Tuesday’s deadly bombing,...
Jueves, 22/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Video Experimental <That was Spanish - not reversed word order> - An experimental video work was presented hoy a las 1900 in the Saladentro art space. It explores the effect of trauma in...
As a member of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics, I’m privileged to have as colleagues some of the most accomplished Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDNs). Our column this week emphasizes lifestyle behaviors that people throughout the world can take to...
Miércoles, 21/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda event - Tango - The Cultural Unit of the U. of Cuenca presented "Tango Nuevo en Universidades" Wednesday in the teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz. Argentinean singer, composer and pianist Alejandro...
Domingo, 18/3/2018 Hola, Todos Pagina cultural- Sunday's agenda events - "Jornadas Libertarias" (Libertarian Days) - This collective is opening a show called "PintadaPintaPintemosPintaremosPinton" (GraffitiPaintPaintPaintPaint) <Sounds like a conjugation exercise...
This morning I spoke with a friend of mine who lives in Thailand. He's been there for over 10 years. He told me he is starting to miss enough things about the United States that he's thinking about heading back there in a year (or less). He was a big outdoors guy and...
By Ashley Rogers Shell and Marsha Spivey didn’t know they would be changing the face of a village when they first moved to La Entrada — a sleepy fishing village on the Ruta de Spondylus on the Ecuadorian Coast. But, they have, and in ways that can only be called...
By Robert Bradley My favorite haunt, Casa Azul Galeria Cafe, reopened last week. What a relief! I love dropping in for early morning cafe con leche and greeting the day with my neighbors while sharing a few minutes before the calendar crowds us into little boxes of...
The women come from all parts of Ecuador’s Amazon region but they share one thing in common: a fierce determination to stop the growing oil exploration and mining activity on what they consider ancestral land. President Lenin Moreno has agreed to meet with the Women...
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
