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Peru’s culture minister Salvador del Solar has resigned amid continuing controversy over President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s decision to pardon the country’s former president, Alberto Fujimori. “I thank the president of the Republic for giving me the opportunity to...
The owner of a Quito restaurant where two people died this week in a gas explosion has been charged with manslaughter, according to prosecutors. The owner, a Chinese citizen, is being held without bond and his bank accounts have been frozen, said prosecutor Thania...
Mayor Marcelo Cabrera announced Thursday that bars in Cuenca will be allowed to remain open until 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day and until 3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. “We want people to have a good time over the holidays but we remind them that they should act...
Hundreds of protesters demanding an increase in city bus fares closed streets around Parque Calderon on Thursday. Organized by the Cuenca Chamber of Transportation, marchers carried signs attacking the municipal council for delaying a decision on the type of new buses...
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar New Year’s resolutions are a time-honored tradition, often a promise to do something better next year. The...
Calling President Lenin Moreno plan to reactivate the Ecuadorian economy “Correismo by another name,” Roberto Aspiazu, executive director of the Ecuadorian Business Committee (CEE), said Thursday that the business community has so far been disappointed with the new...
So who’s being incinerated on New Year’s Eve? Every year, this is the burning question in Ecuador, one that says a lot about the political mood of the country. An informal survey of vendors of New Year’s monigotes, or dummies, shows the favorite targets of 2017 are...
The management of Ecuador’s digital money system will be turned over to private banks. The National Assembly approved a line item veto by President Lenin Moreno on Wednesday to allow the system, currently administered by Ecuador’s Central Bank, to be run by the...
Angered at the delay in the implementation of a fare increase, representatives of the Cuenca bus companies that provide municipal service say they will mount protests in several locations and are considering a work stoppage. According to the companies, represented by...
I love kids so I really like to see them in action as the stars of many parades they are participants in. They all seem to have their moods just like their adult counterparts running the full gamut from boredom to completely flipping out over their event. The...
Ecuador’s National Elections Commission (CNE) says it has completed preparations for the campaign for and against President Lenin Moreno’s seven referendum questions. CNE has certified 40 political organizations and parties to participate in the campaign, 36 that...
Peru’s president has pardoned his ailing predecessor Alberto Fujimori from serving a 25-year sentence for crimes against humanity and corruption. In a written statement late Sunday, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said that he decided to release Fujimori, 79, for “humanitarian...
For the first time in five months, workers are returning to tranvía construction sites near Civic Plaza in the historic district. Director of project contractor ACTN, Mónica Quezada, says that work to connect train tracks and repair streets and sidewalks between...
Cuenca’s rivers are running at near-record lows and the city utility office says that water rationing is possible if levels don’t rise soon. On Monday, the Tomebamba and Yanuncay rivers, the largest of the five rivers that supply Cuenca’s municipal water supply, were...
A massive explosion blew the roof off a popular Quito restaurant late Saturday night, killing two and injuring at least 12. According to the initial police report, the explosion was the result of a gas leak in a room that contained a large number of domestic gas...
Canada has officially expelled the Venezuelan ambassador in response to Venezuela’s recent expulsion of the Canadian ambassador in an ongoing diplomatic tit-for-tat. Ottawa will expel a Venezuelan diplomat and bar that country’s ambassador from returning, Foreign...
By John Keeble Sustainable Cuenca, a new expat organisation aimed at alleviating poverty, has launched two projects and is planning a third. The volunteers, working under the banner of Foundation Avanzar, are helping women in Ricaurte earn a living from making onion...
By Liam Higgins According to Ecuador’s customs service, the value of imported liquor has doubled in 2017 over 2016 with December figures yet to be counted. For European liquor, the increase is more than 400%, year over year. The reason for the increase is no surprise,...
We don't do Thanksgiving here in Cuenca but our Christmas is spectacular. My apartment is on a section of the Tomebamba River that is festooned with a string of blue lights across the river every 75 feet or so and this year they have added fish, frogs and ducks. The...
Saturday’s traditional exchange of godfather duties for Cuenca’s El Niño, the 200-year-old statue of the Christ child, marked the final preparation for today’s Christmas Eve parade. In the ceremony at the cathedral Saturday night, the Third (Tarqui) Army Division...
