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By Lucinda Elliott Within a year of moving from Montreal to Cuenca, Deborah Debas began to experiment with home brewing. She and her husband Mathieu had wanted to live somewhere warmer than Canada and settled in Ecuador’s third-largest city in 2012. Debas, 36, was on...
Saying he understands the difficulties faced by the Ecuador business community, President-elect Lenin Moreno said yesterday that he will form production and tax advisory councils to analyze how government policies affect the commercial sector. "I believe changes need...
An early morning mass at the cathedral and a student parade on Calle Simon Bolivar highlight today's commemoration of Cuenca's Spanish founding 460 years ago. Officially, La Santa Ana de los Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca, was established April 12, 1557 by Captain Gil Ramirez...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Header event - Martes del Cine - Tuesday's Tuesday movie at the Alianza Francesa was "Vandal" at 19:00 in the auditorium (Tadeo Torres y av. Solano). Articles about - "Banda sonora" (soundtrack) - Cuenca now has its own soundtrack for...
By Sandra Block Americans who live abroad have an unusual and costly problem: Financial institutions are reluctant to take their money. But with a new account created by the State Department Federal Credit Union and the nonprofit American Citizens Abroad, they now...
A stolen cell phone was the key evidence that led to Sunday's arrest of José Víctor Y., the man suspected in at least two recent murders near Cuenca. Police say the phone belonged to Rosa Regina Camas, 38, whose body was found last Monday in Guangarcucho, just off the...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Header event - Concierto - the Academia de Música Saula will resent a concert of sacred and popular music este martes, 11/4 a las 20:00 in the Teatro Sucre. Free Articles about - CIDAP - When CIDAP was founded in 1975, it created a...
In the second round of presidential elections in Ecuador on Sunday, April 2, Rafael Correa’s successor as leader of Alianza País (Country Alliance, AP), Lenín Moreno, won 51.6 percent of the vote, defeating conservative Guillermo Lasso, who took 48.8 percent. What is...
Ecuador's Central Bank reported Monday that the country's GDP grew by 1.7% in the last quarter of 2016 and says it expects similar results for the first quarter of 2017. During his Saturday "Citizens Link" television broadcast, President Rafael Correa claimed that...
National police have arrested a man identified at José Víctor Y. for two recent Cuenca murders. Prior to Sunday's arrest, police said the considered the perpetrator a "serial murder." The suspect is accused of the murders of Disney Maybelline O. and Rosa Regina C.,...
President Rafael Correa is accusing the polling organization Cedatos, the Citizen Participation Corporation (CPC) and media outlets of attempting to manipulate the outcome of the last week's presidential runoff election. In an exit poll released shortly after the...
By Dawisson Belem Lopes Atacama is a cool and arid region that occupies a continuous strip for about 1,000km along the coast of the northern third of Chile, reaching as far as the Peruvian border in the north. As the driest desert zone on Earth, it is a good metaphor...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Libros recomendados (recommended books <although if I have to translate that, how do you expect to read the books?> Biografía del Silencio by Pablo D'Ors, published by Siruela 2017 Dime Quién Soy by Julia Navarro, published by De...
By Andres Schipani Ecuador’s president-elect swept to victory this week partly on the coat-tails of Rafael Correa, the country’s mercurial leader, who anointed him as his successor. But, he insists: “I will be making the decisions in the next government. I will apply...
Cuenca's historic center committee is taking aim at graffiti in the city's historic district. The committee has organized a work minga on Saturday and is equipping volunteers from 29 organizations with solvent, gloves, brushes, and paint in a campaign to eliminate...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Carmen - Bizet's Carmen will be presented today at 20:00 by the Department of Arts in the U. of Cuenca. The work, "basada en el teatro fisico para sequencias actorales en las que se incorporá particuras musicales...
My morning routine includes listening to podcasts from a variety of NPR radio shows as I walk on the Tomebamba. Yesterday, I was in stitches listening to the food safety expert describing how most people’s kitchen sinks were best suited to hosting a riotous party for...
By Ernesto Londoño Lenín Moreno, Ecuador’s president-elect, has described being a paraplegic as a blessing. People who walk, he explained a few years ago, keep their gaze trained forward and upward. “When you don’t have legs, you look down,” he said in 2012, when he...
Property and business owners in Cuenca’s historic district say they are still waiting for a definite schedule of when the tranvia will go into service. “We ask and we ask and never get a clear answer,” says clothing store owner Jorge Ramos. “Knowing this affects our...
President-elect Lenin Moreno met Thursday with 60 ambassadors from foreign countries and said his office would be open to all of them. “My door will always be open and my intention is to establish cordial, cooperative relationships with all governments of the world,”...
