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Ecuador and China signed three cooperation agreements on Wednesday for the construction of hospitals destroyed by the 2016 earthquake and for advanced education technology. The deals cover construction of hospitals in Chone and Bahia de Caraquez, replacing ones...
I apologize in advance for my rant redux today, but I’m just fed up…again! Here are my second bunch of worst of the worst manufactured foods that have no place in a healthy diet. For the previous four worst foods ever, click here, and weep. #4: Salad Dressings. Not...
By Samantha North Annual leave is a foreign concept for branding strategist Julian Stubbs. He can travel whenever he feels like it and manage his business uninterrupted from anywhere in the world, including beaches, airports and parks. Originally from Cheltenham,...
President Lenin Moreno promoted his seven-question national referendum Tuesday in Guayaquil, insisting that his goal is to reestablish trust among Ecuadorians. "We are working to heal the country by recovering its unity, promoting reconciliations between families,...
Two police officers were injured Tuesday afternoon as they escorted officials from the Rio Blanco gold mine between meetings in Molleturo. Molleturo, located 20 miles west of Cuenca in the Cajas Mountains, has been the scene of several protests against the mining...
A legal battle between Chevron and Indigenous villagers from Ecuador, spanning several decades and across three countries, is now playing out in Canada as Ontario courts consider whether to enforce foreign judgments here. In 2011, Chevron Corp., the third-largest oil...
Although six of the seven bus companies that provide Cuenca’s municipal bus service have signed an agreement that will raise fares from 25 cents to 30 cents, the hold-out says it objects to a requirement to replace its buses with a new European model. Ricaurtesa says...
The stars are coming to Loja! Fourteen top international theater and performances troupes, as well as Ecuador's best theater talent, have signed on for the 2017 Loja Festival of Live Arts (Festival Internacional de Artes Vivas Loja 2017), November 16 through 26. The...
Ecuador Assistant Attorney General Diego García reported Monday that the Municipality of Cuenca had good reason to terminate its project management agreement with the Four Rivers Consortium of Cuenca (CCRC). The city is in a mediation with CCRC in a court in Santiago,...
A Peruvian man was arrested Monday on suspicion of being part of a gang that targets motorists on Cuenca historic district streets. According to national police, the gang or gangs, operates in groups of three, with one member driving a car that rear-ends another...
Ecuador Attorney General Carlos Baca said Monday that a Chinese construction firm may have paid bribes to Ecuadorian government officials. The investigation of China International Water and Electric (CWE) stems from testimony in the Odebrecht bribery case, he said....
By Chris Hedges The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global...
“It’s clean, it’s simple, and it’s safe,” is how Romero Salazar describes the slate of questions that President Lenin Moreno has chosen to include on the national referendum to be held in January or February. “The questions also show Moreno as a savvy, sophisticated...
Although its overall impact has fallen in recent years, money sent home from Ecuadorians living abroad -- or remittances, as the payments are commonly known -- remains a vitally important part the country’s economy. In 2016, remittances totaled $2.6 billion, mostly...
By Nicholas Casey Irma Rosales, tired after decades of tending her tiny store, sat back one morning with a box full of photos and remembered the stranger who was shot in the local schoolhouse 50 years ago. His hair was long and greasy, she said; his clothes so dirty...
By Jamil Moscoso The first recorded use of pyrotechnics in Cuenca dates back to the early 1600’s, only decades after the city’s founding by Spanish conquistadors. In fact, explosives were first used in the city on May 28, 1614 to enliven the processions during the...
The bullet-riddled body of a news photographer was found in central Mexico on Friday, state officials, putting 2017 on track to become the deadliest year yet for journalists in the notoriously violent country. Edgar Daniel Esqueda, 23, who worked with Metropoli San...
By Robert Bradley I’ve been busy producing an exhibition and art show for the Municipal Museum of Art Modern. VINCULO: Reunion de Arte y Artesanias Municipal Museum of Art Modern (MMAM) November 1 to November 10 Working in consort with the University of Cuenca,...
Editor’s note: Only 75 miles northeast of Cuenca, the Sangay volcano is the least accessible and least studied volcano in Ecuador. Even its name is shrouded in mystery. In 2016, University of Wyoming of Geology professor Kennith Sims led a team of scientists to Sangay...
The vendors who make a living renting umbrellas and selling fruit and cold drinks to tourists on Manta’s beaches are up in arms about a city project that has removed tons of sand. The federal government is also awaiting an answer from the municipal government. The...
Week of October 25
Ecuador heads into a four-day November holiday built around Cuenca’s Independence Day.
El Niño’s early rains have already affected more than 30,000 people across Ecuador.
Exporters press Constitutional Court to move three major trade agreements forward
