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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 OrquÃdea 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...
Ecuador’s Comptroller General Pablo Celi is recommending that President Lenin Moreno fire Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (IESS) director Richard Espinosa. Celi says Espinosa failed to meet a deadline to justify his handling of a $2.5 billion debt owed to IESS...
Martes, 21/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Hip-Hopera - The "Per-versos" Collective <No, not Roy Moore, Donald Trump or Al Franken> will present their latest work at a Hip-Hopera event el jueves y viernes a las 20:00 at the Museo...
By Nate Erickson Alejandro Robaina lived through revolution, defied Fidel Castro, and traveled the globe for decades as an ambassador for Cuban tobacco. His plantation earned him recognition as the best grower in his home country, but the Cohiba cigars bearing his...
President Lenin Moreno said Monday that Paul Manafort, U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign manager, accompanied a group of Chinese businessmen interested in buying Ecuador’s national power company in a May meeting that he hosted. Moreno was president-elect at the...
President Lenin Moreno has asked Ecuador’s Constitutional Court to speed up the review of the seven questions that will be included in the popular referendum that goes to voters early next year. The court must approve the legality of the questions and consider citizen...
Lunes, 20/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda event - II Festival de Artes Musicales EA6 - This festival started Monday in the Teatro Pumapungo with Ensamble Concerts. The event for el martes, 21/11 will be a las 9:30 in the Facultad de Artes -...
By David Morrill Cuenca´s Museo de las Culturas Aborigenes, or Museum of Aboriginal Culture, is not your typical roadside attraction. Despite the fact that it is relatively small and privately owned, many consider it one of Ecuador’s best archeology and anthropology...
Domingo, 19/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Taller - There will be a free workshop in the Biblioteca Municipal (public library) in Sayausà on Comics - how to draw comics. <I think comics have gone a long way since Little...
By Robert Bradley It is early morning in Vilcabamba. Roosters are crowing and dogs are barking, each clamoring for attention and stating their purpose and intentions for the day  -- a cacophony of insistence and urgency that is oddly enjoyable. The air is still,...
By Ciaran Giles Former Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa called on his successor Lenin Moreno to explain to his country why he met with the indicted former campaign chairman for U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year. "If they keep it secret it's because they...
More than a year after the project manager for Cuenca’s quarter-billion dollar tram system walked off the job, the city has a replacement. The French ACTN consortium signed a $48 million contract on Saturday to complete the project. Cuenca tram coordinator Santiago...
Story and photos by Bartley D’Alfonso Musicologists agree: at any given moment there's a live performance of an opera by the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart performed somewhere in the world. It was Cuenca’s turn on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights. That was when...
Friday morning’s 6.2 magnitude earthquake was followed late Friday night with a strong 5.8 tremor south of Guayaquil. Both quakes were felt in much of the country, including Cuenca. Guayaquil officials said that the morning earthquake, which struck about 8:30, caused...
Viernes, 17/11/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - There was a cultural event in El Vecino hoy. Articles about - Review - The Magic Flute performance was summarized and positively reviewed. Over 200 musicians, singers and actors performed....
By Estelle Erasmus A year before she retired in 2014, Joan Rall, a New-York-based partner at the accounting and consulting firm EY (Ernst & Young), wasn’t worried about how she’d spend her time. “I landed a teaching job at NYU’s Business School and thought that...
By Clive Sanford Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies have loyal followers who believe that the future of mediums of exchange and stores of value is in currency constructs that are outside the purview of governments and central banks. They also have confidence that the...
