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Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 17/9) Cámara Lúcida: década con más de 40 películas (Cámara Lúcida: A Decade with More Than 40 Films) - The Festival Internacional de Cine Cámara Lúcida will celebrate its 10th edition from el 23/9 to el 1/10 with more than 40...
Two years ago, when Ecuador’s electricity supply began to falter, I approached emergency planning with all the technical sophistication of an antebellum mortician. I bought candles. This was not entirely foolish. Candles are cheap, require no instruction manual and...
By Andrew Lawler The subterranean corridor was lit only by eerie light that filtered down narrow ventilation shafts and reflected from polished stone. Priests huffed on decorated conch shell trumpets, sending deep blasts echoing against the cut stone walls of the...
Anticipating the impact of El Niño on the country’s power supply, Energy Minister Juan Carlos Blum announced Friday that electric service to 150 large companies will be cut one day a week beginning September 22. Blum said companies would have the option of...
Bored? - (De El Mercurio del jueves, 17/9) AGENDA 18 de septiembre 19:00 - Horror fans - Screening of the film, "La noche del terror ciego" (The Night of the Blind Terror) in the IV cycle: cine B. in the Casa Patrimonial Municipal del Artista. 10:00 - The film, "El...
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez None of the deported men and women placed in a three-story hotel in a remote, coastal area of this West African country are Liberian citizens. Many are not even from Africa. Instead, they hail from countries throughout Latin America —...
President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday declared the 25th state of emergency of his presidency, this one applying to eight provinces and three cantons. Unlike the previous two emergencies when all of Azuay Province was included, only one canton is named in the new order....
The other day I stumbled into one of those discoveries that makes you wonder how many useful things have been sitting under your nose for years. We've all had that experience. You buy a car and six months later someone casually mentions that the mirrors fold in...
By Nathaniel Meyersohn Touchscreen kiosks, self-checkout machines and QR-code menus were only here to help. The dream was that these self-service technologies would recommend food we’d like at McDonald’s and speed up CVS lines. But kiosks ended up presenting way too...
The second Great March for Water drew thousands of protesters Wednesday to Cuenca’s historic district. On the way to a program of speeches, music and dance in San Francisco Plaza, march leaders dropped off a letter at the government building on Parque Calderon...
By Jeremiah Reardon IdiomARTE is pleased to invite you to the Open House of its new home on Saturday, September 19, from 6 to 10 p.m. This grand opening will take place on Benigno Malo 4-76 y Calle Larga in downtown Cuenca. And what a lineup for the evening! Noel...
By Stephanie H. Murray On a cloudy evening in June, after a leisurely dinner with an old friend, I told her I’d better call an Uber and pulled out my little black brick of a phone. “What is that?” she asked. It’s a Light Phone, I explained. A dumbphone, essentially....
Although they don’t expect to match last year's numbers, organizers of today’s “Great March for Water” say they expect “many, many thousands” to participate. According to estimates, the 2025 march drew more than 100,000 and forced the government to abandon plans for a...
By Sol Amaya As some 2,500 heavily armed police officers, soldiers and snipers entered through a maze of narrow streets, intense gunfire could be heard all around. The scene reached its climax when a bomb targeting the security forces was seen falling from the sky,...
When I was young, a pair of Levi's or Wranglers blue jeans seemed like essential kit. They were tough enough for outdoor work, respectable enough for most indoor activities and could be worn for several days without needing to be washed. More importantly, they were...
By Stephen Moss I have to confess that I rarely enjoy birding in montane cloud forests. The birds that live in these mountainous, cool and humid habitats are masters of disguise, usually passing themselves off as a leaf or other form of foliage. But if I want to see...
Electric service in large areas of Quito and Guayaquil was suspended Sunday and Monday, with blackouts lasting from a few minutes to more than two hours. The suspensions coincided with cleaning operations at the Coca Coda Sinclair hydroelectric plant, during which...
By Genevieve Glatsky Colombia said it would begin testing aerial spraying to eradicate coca crops, the raw material used to make cocaine, for the first time since the government halted one of the country’s most contentious antidrug policies more than a decade ago — a...
Everyone in Carlos’s bakery was laughing. The woman beside Tom leaned against the counter. The man in the hat shook his head. Carlos was still smiling as he handed over the bread. Tom smiled too. It seemed the appropriate thing to do. Outside, Robert caught up with...
By Christa Sgobba It’s the bane of busy folks everywhere: You know you should set aside time for regular exercise, but your packed schedule makes it tough. And as you reach your 50s and beyond, your body might start feeling the effects of that missed movement. That’s...
