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By Lee Dubs When Carol and I sold the Carolina Bookstore a few weeks ago after spending eleven years building it from a tiny shop with a few shelves and a handful of books in English into a large store with about 12,000 volumes in a dozen languages, a frequently asked...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Drag - Teatro Drag Dionisios will present "La rosca de reyes" (The thread of kings) from tWed. to sábado at 20:00 in el Sono (Borrero 6-83). The theater seats 50. Cost: $7.00. Call 2850-859 for...
By David Morrill According to Lee Dubs, the decision to sell Carolina Bookstore after 11 years was easy. “It was simply time to move on,” he says, adding, “Carol and I are not getting any younger and there are other things we’d like to do.” Lee and his wife and...
Ecuador's first transgender parents say they have received a series of messages vowing to kill their infant son. Police say they are investigating. Diane Rodriguez and her partner Fernando Machado were married in January and announced the birth of their son Sununu in...
Today is the official beginning of Ecuador’s 2017 campaign for the presidency and 137 seats in the National Assembly. Candidates are allowed to begin television, newspaper and roadside advertising, which is monitored by the National Electoral Council (CNE) to make...
Hola, Todos - Un buen año nuevo a todos, and I hope you all survived without a trip to a hospital to treat crotch burns. Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda event - GOD/ART - The first independent magazine specializing in cinema was presented in the CCE. Articles about -...
The city of Cuenca’s public procurement office says that the contract to rehabilitate San Francisco Plaza will be awarded on January 30. The start of the $1.53 million project was postponed from late last year due to negotiations over loan terms with the state...
To understand what’s at stake in next month’s presidential election, it's important to first consider Rafael Correa’s enormous impact on Ecuador. The election will be, in large part, a referendum on his presidency. It’s also important to understand that Correa’s...
Hola, Todos - I didn't get the paper this morning, so I'll translate Saturday's instead, keeping past events brief. I didn't want to find out what having a whole weekend off felt like. I might like it too much. I might not have gotten the paper because I didn't...
2016 of a year of particularly violent earthquakes in many parts of the world. Most of the worst quakes were felt along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a zone encompassing the coasts of Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The area is rife with active submarine volcanoes and...
After about the two o’clock this morning, the streets of Cuenca were still full of people but the party-goers of a few hours earlier had mostly been replaced by a thousand sanitation workers. As has been the case following other recent New Year’s mornings, it’s all...
According to terms of the trade agreement signed earlier this month between Ecuador and the European Union (EU), 76% of imports to Ecuador will come into the country duty free. In all, 2,565 products are covered under the agreement. Tariffs will be reduced gradually...
Hola, Todos - Feliz Año Nuevo y voy a verles este próximo año. Pagina cultural - Non-agenda agenda items Museo de la Catedral Vieja - as close as you can get to an ad for a news item. CCE - 2 items about a local meeting yesterday and another inter-provincial meeting...
The United Nations has criticized the Ecuadorian government for ordering the closure of a land rights, environmental advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting a Chinese copper mine on land they claim as their ancestral home. The crackdown by...
Sounding more like the candidate for change than one representing the status quo, Alianza País presidential candidate Lenin Moreno toured a popular Cuenca market on Thursday and addressed supporters at the Jefferson Pérez Colesium. “Politics need to stop being so ugly...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Undated and upcoming agenda events - Childrens' book - "Cuentos fantásticos de pactos y encantamientos" (Fantastic tales of covenants and enchantments) by Iván Petroff has 30 stories and illustrations by Santiago Álvarez. Clown classes...
By David Morrill Looking around the Manhattan bar and grill where he worked in 1989, Freddy Vasquez told himself it was the kind of place he wanted to own one day. “It had three floors, which meant you could have different activities going on with their own private...
The Consorcio Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca (CCRC), the Spanish company responsible for managing construction of the tranvía, is demanding an additional 487 days to complete the project. CCRC claims that the extra time is needed due to design changes and “economic conflicts”...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Undated agenda events - Revista - Issue 42 of the magazine Historia de Procesos, published by the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar is in circulation and contains academic articles and book reviews. (Better than Ambian.) Mujeres...
Presidential front-runner Lenin Moreno visits Cuenca today, with stops planned at a historic district market and at the Jefferson Pérez Coliseum. Moreno, vice president during President Rafael Correa’s first two terms in office and a member of Correa’s Alianza País...
