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By Nicholas Casey, Patricia Torres and Ana Herrero The legitimacy of Sunday’s election to overhaul Venezuela’s Constitution was under threat as many voters avoided the ballot box, nations across the region rejected the predetermined result and the streets erupted in...
Text by Roz Reymers; Photos by John Keeble Despite the cold morning, twenty-seven expats turned out Saturday in San Joaquin for a Walk/Hike/Run to raise money for Antony Zapata, a 15-year-old from Cañar province who lost his leg last year in a motorcycle accident....
Photos and text by John Keeble It’s tough getting old. You kind of split in two… your mind sees the world with the adventurous I can do anything optimism of your twenties and your body says: “Yeah, well, I’ll try.” Just as bad, you look out at someone as a 25-year-old...
Cuenca’s Marsical La Mar Airport authority announced Saturday that Tame Airlines will resume Cuenca to Guayaquil service on Monday with an afternoon flight. The government-owned airlines suspended flights in April, saying that low passenger demand made the route...
Transit police placed warning signs at several locations on the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway in the Cajas mountains Saturday, as snow and ice slowed traffic. They said the warnings will remain in place in coming days due to cold temperatures. Although snowfall near the...
By Robert Bradley This graceful Andean city, with its towering colonial architecture and centuries old mercados, pulsing with vigor and energy, provides a current that energizes, enchants and engages. It is a vibrant city adorned with a patina rich in texture. It is...
Calling the government’s economic situation “critical,” President Lenin Moreno laid out a tight budget for the second half of 2017 on Friday and said he is working on a long-range plan that will involve a wide-range of austerity measures. “We have made great progress...
Editor's note: This is the second of an eight-part series by writer / photographer Brian Buckner about hiking in the Cuenca area. To read the first installment, click here. By Brian Buckner I define rural hiking as walking in areas outside the city proper but the...
Martin Smetáček, managing partner of Czech Brewery Pivovar C.Ltda., says choosing Ecuador to build a Czech brewing made good business sense. “There’s very little competition here and we don’t expect any to show up,” he says, explaining that the difficulty of doing...
Jueves, 27/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Thursday agenda event - Meeting - There was a meeting this morning in the Casa de Chaguarchimbana with the neighbors and "frentistas" (people with homes and/or businesses fronting the street) (ista - your suffix for...
By Louis Bourgeois I first came to Cuenca, Ecuador in October 2013 after exploring for four years in other Latin American countries. After one night in a hostel in El Centro with the help of a new friend I located an apartment in the area near Féria Libre, Rio...
We all want to eat more naturally, and it would appear that the sweetener stevia, sourced from a plant, fits the bill. But, is it as natural as all that? First, a few facts about stevia from the Global Stevia Institute: Indigenous South Americans discovered stevia...
Representatives from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) took a tour of Cuenca’s tanvía project Tuesday and are considering providing financial support. One of UNOPS’s objectives is to identify infrastructure projects in developing countries that...
By John Keeble Cuenca’s expat community, perhaps the world’s first to be built primarily by the Internet, has come of age — it has grown and changed from a few hundred adventurer-expats in the pre-boom years to a large population enjoying a retired lifestyle of good...
Miércoles, 26/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Ciclo de Cine - The film series sponsored by the Cine Club Catarsis will close with "Irreversible," Thurs. a las 19:00 in the Mjuseo Pumapungo. Free. Danza - The Universidad...
Twenty-one years ago today, more than half of all Ecuadorians were in front of their televisions cheering on Cuenca’s Jefferson Perez when he crossed the finish line in Atlanta, winning the 20-kilometer Olympic race walk. His Olympic gold medal is the only one ever...
President Lenin Moreno has ordered a review of taxes he says are hurting Ecuador’s construction and real estate industries. During his weekly address to the nation on Monday, Moreno said that a 2016 law aimed at controlling land speculation was having unintended...
Martes, 25/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - Pictorial Show - "La Gravedad siempre gana" (Gravity always wins) <My butt will attest to the truth of that.> by Gabriel Zamora will open on jueves a las 19:00 in the Museo Municipal de...
Editor's note: This is the first of an eight-part series by writer / photographer Brian Buckner about hiking in the Cuenca area. The series covers urban hiking, rural hiking, hiking in the Cajas Mountains, people you meet along the trail, transportation options, what...
By Emiliano Rodríguez Mega Paola Ayala knew it was a gamble to dial down her physics research at the University of Vienna in May 2015 and spend most of her time at Yachay Tech University, a nascent institution in rural northern Ecuador backed with an estimated $1...
