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Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's (Thurs.) agenda events - Book launch - "Antesdeora y otros cuentos de una historia" by Oswaldo Durán González was presented Thurs. in the Sala de Conciertos at the CCE (Cordero y Córdova). Día del Periodismo Ecuatoriano - the...
Ecuador’s murder rate dropped to 5.6 per 100,000 residents in 2016, giving it the second lowest rate in Latin America. Chile has the lowest at 4.8 per 100,000. The country recorded 914 homicides in 2016 which, according to Minister of the Interior Diego Fuentes, is...
By Rob Gray We here at Gran Roca Farm are seriously committed to farming sustainably. As 2016 has come to a close, we wanted to look back and evaluate our "sustainability progress" and see how we were doing. But first we needed to document where we started. Going back...
By Gabriel Lotto The April 16, 2016 Pedernales, Ecuador, earthquake was the latest in a string of large quakes that have repeatedly ruptured the Ecuador-Colombia subduction zone over the last 100+ years. The earthquakes kicked off in 1906, when a megathrust earthquake...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Charla - There will be a talk about Ecuadorian journalism (a species under threat of extinction?) tomorrow at 10:00 in the Sala de Audiovisuales at the CCE. Repeats of yesterdays items - Mini -...
Presidential front-runner Lenin Moreno agreed Wednesday to join a “dialog” with the other seven candidates to be hosted by the Quito newspaper El Comercio. The event will be broadcast on television and radio on a date to be determined. Moreno, who says his campaign...
North of Cuenca, lie a few small, sparsely populated villages and hamlets. Out past there, the Andes rise quickly from the tendrils of their ghostly mist, partially shrouded by late afternoon sheets of rain. A small hole opens in the sky allowing several beams of...
By Erika Astudillo A modern construction occupying around four hectares of land surrounded by brick houses, tractors and businesses of all kinds stands out between the farmlands and the snow-capped mountains of the Andes, at an altitude of 3,200 metres. It is a...
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...
