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For several hours on Monday, air travelers were able to purchase on-line round-trip tickets from Cuenca to Quito for $37. Although deep-discount promotional fares come and go, Latam Airlines said all ticket prices will drop during the month of December. “We are...
By Jack Shenker Shortly after midnight on Friday, 28 January 2011, someone in 26 Ramses Street, a nondescript 12-storey office building in downtown Cairo, turned off Egypt’s internet. No email, web access, WhatsApp or Skype. It didn’t matter. A few hours later,...
Lunes, 4/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Concierto - "Sonidos de Navidad 2017" (Sounds of Christmas, 2017) performed by the Conservatorio Superior José María Rodríguez, will be el martes, 12/12 en el Museo de la Catedral Vieja. Articles...
Early damage assessments from Sunday morning’s 6.0 magnitude coastal earthquake indicate some structural damage, mostly to buildings weakened by the April 2016 earthquake. Officials in Bahía de Caráquez, just south of the quake epicenter, say however, that hundreds of...
Former president Rafael Correa urged his supporters to form a new political movement if they cannot regain control of Alianza País (AP) from members loyal to President Lenin Moreno. The call came during Sunday’s convention of the Correa faction of AP in Esmeraldas. In...
Domingo, 3/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Pase del Niño - The traditional Pase del Niño starts el lunes, 4/12 "en el" (in the - words to memorize) Museo de las Conceptas (Hermano Miguel 6-33 y Juan Jaramillo). <No, I'm not confused,...
By Robert Bradley To have come to this season, part II. They are stringing the lights for Christmas around Parque Calderon. The blue CUENCA sign across from the Cathedral is a huge hit already. Teens are grouping together in sizes that stretch beyond the limit of a...
A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake, centered 19 kilometers north of Bahia de Caraquez, struck at 6:19 Sunday morning. The quake was shallow, at a depth of 10 kilometers, with the epicenter close to that of the catastrophic April 2016 earthquake that killed hundreds...
Text & photographs by John Keeble A sleek, grey shadow emerged from among the volcanic rock life below the Galápagos waves, hugging the side of a curving wall and slipping past me with an elegance of a superb creature in its element. It was a shark, about a metre...
Former President Rafael Correa said on Friday that it will be several years before he can consider moving back to Ecuador from his wife’s native Belgium, where the family relocated in July after the end of his mandate. Correa, 54, was in Ecuador to take part in...
By Liam Higgins Cuenca's municipal transit authority estimates that more than 500 foreign residents 65 and older purchased pre-paid city bus cards in 2017 at the discounted rate of 12 cents per ride. Full fare is 25 cents. "It's a fabulous deal that proves age has its...
Ecuadorians will go to the polls February 4, 2018 to vote on seven referendum questions that President Lenin Moreno wants answered in the affirmative. Among the questions is one that, if approved, would reverse a constitutional amendment introduced by former president...
Two days before a scheduled convention by the faction of Alianza País (AP) loyal to former president Rafael Correa, the group still does not have a place to meet. On Thursday, the Esmeraldas Chamber of Commerce denied the AP group use of its meeting facilities at the...
Are you still confused about the “best” and “worst” fats? Are low-fat diets best for weight loss? Or is that old news? Myths “Fats” is not a four-letter word signifying obesity; fats are essential components of a healthy diet. However, all fats are not equal in terms...
Jueves, 30/11/2017 Hola, Todos - There will probably not be a periodico on domingo and there might not be one mañana either. It all depends on when other activities end and how much energy I have afterwards. I don't think a trip to the zoo with 14 kids aged 5-12 is...
By Daniel Politi and Ernesto Londoño Judges overseeing Argentina’s most high-profile human rights trial sentenced 29 former officials to life in prison on Wednesday, in a case that documented the former military dictatorship’s widespread practice of killing civilians...
According to geologists, the series of earthquakes near Guayaquil in recent weeks may help prevent much more powerful earthquakes in the future. According to Carlos Chon, president of the Ecuadorian Society of Earthquake Engineering, the earthquakes of the past three...
Miércoles, 29/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - UNESCO Commemoration - To commemorate the anniversary of Cuenca's being declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the show "Anomia-Desechables" (Anomia-Disposables) by Christian...
As a photographer, I am compelled to seek out and record interesting imagery. As a photojournalist, I am compelled to shine the light of my lens on issues I believe need additional awareness. Sometimes, the making of a particular photograph actually informs me in an...
President Lenin Moreno issued executive decrees on Wednesday ordering the National Electoral Council (CNE) to begin immediately to prepare for a public referendum. The orders essentially bypass the Constitutional Court, Ecuador highest court, which has been conducting...
