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Lunes, 27/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Tis the season to break my own rule about not posting anything I didn't read in El Mercurio. I'm looking for 2 or 3 sponsors/field trip helpers to help me take the 14 kids from a little country school in Sustag to the Bioparque Amaru...
A moderate magnitude earthquake, centered northwest of Guayaquil, was felt strongly throughout much of Guayas, Santa Elena and Bolivar Provinces Monday night. Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute reported the quake at 5.4 magnitude while the Geofon Seismic Network said it...
For many years, expats from across the western world have been drawn to Ecuador, and for good reason. Our country is rich in diverse and historical culture as over the centuries, many nations have made their homes here. And as result, we count indigenous, European,...
The leftist political party Unidad Popular (UP) has asked the attorney general's office to prevent former president Rafael Correa from leaving the country. Correa arrived in Ecuador Saturday morning from his home in Belgium and is scheduled to leave December 4 or 5....
By Liam Higgins Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of Cuenca businesses are moving out of the historic district and relocating in rapidly developing commercial areas in other parts of the city. According to Xavier Patiño, executive director of the Cuenca Chamber of Commerce,...
Former president Rafael Correa said that he is willing to “meet with the devil for the sake of my country” and to heal the split in the Alianza País (AP) movement. A crowd of about 200 cheered the reference to President Lenin Moreno Sunday morning outside Alianza País...
Domingo, 26/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Concierto - Colombian guitarist Mario Arévalo will perform in Cuenca el próximo jueves a las 19:30 in the auditorium of the Centro Cultural Norteamericano Abraham Lincoln. Articles about - El...
By David Gilbert For the last year, there have been rumblings about North Korea and bitcoin. The Hermit Kingdom has been accused of stealing the cryptocurrency, hoarding it, and even mining it. Now, students at a Pyongyang university, once accused of training the...
Photos by Robert Bradley, Text by Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, It was the season of Light, it was the...
Facebook plans to let people see if they had "liked" pages created by "foreign actors" to spread propaganda during the U.S. presidential election. The social network has previously said as many as 126 million Americans may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based...
Former president Rafael Correa arrived in Guayaquil’s José Joaquín Olmedo airport just after midnight Saturday morning and was greeted by a handful of supporters before leaving for a nearby hotel. Correa’s return comes at a crucial time for the Aliazna País (AP)...
Viernes, 24/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - Inauguración - The Pálier Librería & Café will open mañana a las 17:00 "en los bajos" (in the bottom) of the CCE. There will be reading of books and sales of art publications. Articles...
Iran's new naval commander has vowed to send warships to America's backyard. Rear Adm. Hossein Khanzadi said plans were being drawn up for vessels to be deployed to the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean "in the near future." They would also visit South American...
By Liam Higgins Hundreds of U.S. expats gathered in restaurants and private homes Thursday to indulge in the traditional feast of Thanksgiving. Several El Centro restaurants offered turkey dinners with all the fixin’s, including Santorino’s, Santa Canela, El Mesón,...
In the 1960s the idea that diet influenced heart disease was new, but there was a debate among experts about which was the culprit — fat or sugar. Health experts weren’t convinced that all fats were “bad” and even that far back some wanted to examine the role of sugar...
Jueves, 23/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Música contemporánea - The contemporary music group of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca (OSC) will play "Lamento," experimental music from the Twentieth and this century, Friday a las 20:00 in...
Fashion photographer Saul Endara is denouncing the use of an Ecuadorian image by the European fashion label, Loewe. Endara claims that the image which appears on two products in Loewe’s spring collection is almost identical to one produced by Otavalo weavers in...
The sixth edition of the La Orquídea Cuenca Film Festival begins Friday with the screening of Aquarius, starring special festival guest, Brazilian actress Sonia Braga. The festival includes 80 films from around the world, including 20 from Ecuador. Braga, known for...
Ecuador’s foreign ministry has issued a statement repudiating social media comments by Julian Assange that support the Catalonia independence movement in Spain. The ministry has repeated an earlier order to Assange that he refrain from making “statements or engaging...
A group of fifteen professionals from the U.S. visited the community of San Felipe de Oña and the surrounding area November 5 to 19 to help develop ideas to restore a unique, historic neighborhood – known as Barrio de San Francisco – into a "living museum." The living...
