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By Lee Shrader, Jr. I recently read an article entitled 10 Ways to Make Ecuador Remarkable on another website. I had an immediate negative reaction to it. I read it and reread it trying to determine why. After all, none of the suggestions were bad. Most made perfectly...
Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera has declared a state of emergency to fast-track repaving of Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport. The move allows the city to negotiate with contractors without going through a public bidding process. “We must get the airport back to full...
The Cuenca municipal council has named the first projects of the city’s plan to reduce vehicular traffic in the historic district. The projects, which will cost $15.5 million and will begin work in early 2017, were recommended by Spanish urban planning consultants,...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Gaceta Cultural República Sur - The first República Sur Cultural Gazette is in circulation with a critique of Juan Carlos Moya and an interview of the artist Esteman. (Like you were going to run out and read it anyway.) Articles about -...
Who says that “fast food” has to be “bad food”? You’ll get it fast at Subway, the most popular fast food chain in the world, but their motto “Eat Fresh” describes it best. Since the opening of the first franchised store 42 years ago, Subway has been ranked top fast...
By Rob Gray In Part 1 of The secret to wellness and weight control, I explored the concept that the human body evolved to eat the foods that grew around them and came to recognize these "Whole Foods" as human foods and assimilate and effectively use them to provide...
Ecuador defeated Haiti 4-0 Sunday night in New Jersey and advanced to the quarterfinals of Copa America competition for the first time in 20 years. The Tri-Color’s victory set up a Thursday night match with the host U.S. team in Seattle. In the first half of a game...
By Shivani Vora The 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Ecuador in April that killed at least 650 people and injured more than 2,000, emotionally devastated the country and caused enormous damage. A disaster that severe can often lead to a downturn in tourism, but that may...
Loja Mayor José Castillo has enraged animal rights advocates by suggesting a draconian solution to the city’s high population of street dogs. “First, we collect them. Then we find a rational way to make them disappear,” he said last week on the city’s public...
“I’m Asian, and I didn’t want to end up in a camp — they’ve done it before,” after a second glass of wine, a Cuenca expat is quietly telling me why she left California. “I worked in the industry. We left Seattle as soon as we saw the video and understood what happened...
The French Development Agency (AFD) has announced it will offer Ecuador a $100 million credit line for earthquake recovery in Manabi Province. According to AFD spokesman Marco Varea, the money will be used for infrastructure reconstruction, rebuilding of government...
It may not seem like it to a younger extrovert but for this older introvert there is a very special flow to life in Cuenca. I am coming out from two or three month long doldrums, due mostly to some health issues, and feeling alive and on top of the world once again....
Hola, Todos - I know I'm supposed to be on vacation, but these items seemed like something you should know. Those of you who live in El Centro owe me big time for this. Aeropuerto - The airport will need to close for at least a month. The repairs and improvements...
By Jim Wyss Residents of the sweltering port town of Esmeraldas like to boast that at least twice a day they have the best soccer pitch in the country: the beach at low-tide. On a recent weekday, as dozens of young men sprinted back and forth along the hard-packed...
The organization representing San Francisco Plaza vendors has decided to drop its objections to the latest renovation plan. “We have talked to city officials and have decided to become proactive partners in the project,” said Juan Gonzalez, president of the traders'...
By Deke Castleman On my very first night in Ecuador in 2010, in Quito at the Casa Sol, a sign in the bathroom initiated me into toilet tissue Ecuador-style. The sign put us on notice that local plumbing has a hard time with paper, so instead of flushing the TP, Casa...
Hola, Todos - I feel lucky that I'm here writing this since I had to fish the newspaper out of the "cerca electrica" (electric fence) this morning where it was all tangled up. I think I turned the thing off, and I fished with a wood pole and not a metal one. Pagina...
Ecuador’s anemic economy could be poised for recovery. For more than two years, low oil prices and a strong U.S. dollar have been blamed for rising unemployment, falling sales and declining tax revenues. Slowly but steadily in recent weeks those factors appear to be...
In Celebration of the Story I was pleased to read that the Cuenca Department of Culture has a reading program in 22 libraries in the city's 21 parishes, as reported yesterday in Jeanne's Periodico. I hope this means that books will be in the hands and hearts of young...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming events - Revista (magazine) - The literary magazine "El gaucamayo y la serpiente" has returned to circulation. The current issue, number 40, has a monograph about the poetry of Efraín Jara, the magazine's founder. (I'm sure...
