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For the second consecutive day, a strong thunderstorm flooded parts of northeastern Cuenca Wednesday afternoon, leaving drivers stranded and inundating several dozen homes. As on Tuesday afternoon, the areas hit hardest were the industrial park, Ricaurte, Patamarca,...
By Whitney Eulich and Ruxandra Guidi At the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz high school in rural Puebla State, Mexico some classrooms are so cramped that students take their exams out on the front lawn. That was the case in November, when nine pupils, bundled in sweat...
American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and images have appeared in National Geographic, Time, Geo, Stern, Newsweek, Life, Smithsonian, and many others publications. He...
Tides as much as three meters higher than usual flooded several coast communities on Sunday and Monday, destroying several homes in Esmeraldas Province and causing property damage along much of the coast. Ecuador’s meteorological office said the tides should subside...
Primero que nada debemos evitar llegar al punto en el que superemos nuestra capacidad de endeudamiento que no es más que la capacidad que tiene tu sueldo aparte de tus gastos básicos y fijos de endeudarse, generalmente se toma como el 40 o el 30% de tu sueldo, es...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Piano - Pianist David Encalada León plays on 1/12 at 20:00 in the MMAM. Pintura - a show calle "Naturaleza Viva" by Bernarda Arguello will be at the Quinta Bolívar until 31/1. Exposición - "Montañas y ríos sin fin" will open Thu. at...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Música - A guitar recital, "indigenismo contemporáneo ecuatoriano" (contemporary Ecuadorian indigenism) opened the II Festival Internacional de Música Contemporánea Monday 11 at 20:00 in the Museo de Arte Moderno. Exposición - An...
Ecuador may not make the best electronics in the world and connoisseurs in New York, London and Paris are certainly not clamoring for its home-grown cheese. There is, however, one category where it challenges the big boys. When it comes to men's erect penis size,...
Ecuador's Ministry of Public of Ecuador (MSP) Health says it has confirmed the country's first cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The victims, who are undergoing treatment, apparently contracted the disease during a recent trip to Colombia. The victims, both from...
Cuando de dinero se trata algunas personas suelen ser más responsables que otras, al momento de realizar un gasto es importante tomar en cuenta diferentes posibilidades, cuando estas de compras y prefieres gastar en una camisa con un precio inferior a la de una muy...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Exposición - "Montañas y ríos sin fin" (Mountains and rivers without end) will open on 14/1 at 19:00 in the Museo de Arte Moderno. The exhibit will include video art, sculpture, painting, etc. Música - a concert by Spanish singer...
Most foreigners who use Ecuador as a transit point for a new home, head north to the U.S. Several thousand, however, have headed south to Argentina in search of a better life. Migration records show that between 2012 and 2014, 3,458 citizens of Senegal landed in...
Despite weekend rains, the Cuenca utilities department and meteorologists say much more is needed to break the drought that has plagued the area for four months. Nighttime water rationing was instituted early last week in rural parishes near Cuenca, the result the of...
Saying that Ecuador earned no income from oil exports in 2015, President Rafael Correa said Saturday that few other governments would have survived the current economic crisis. “We recognized early last year the difficult economic situation we faced and used smart...
Maria, the receptionist at Carolina Bookstore who will soon be graduating from the university, is an indigenous woman who grew up in a very poor town south of Cuenca. Every Christmas, to give back to her home town, she arranges gift giving and fun for the people she...
By Susan Burke March Physical Therapy (PT) as we know it today, dates back to ancient times. Physicians like Hippocrates and later Galen are believed to have been the first practitioners of physical therapy, advocating massage, manual therapy techniques...
Después de un intenso operativo en con junto con la marina mexicana, el narcotraficante más buscado del mundo conocido como “El chapo guzmán” fue detenido la madrigada de este viernes en su ciudad natal de Sinaloa, México. A causa del operativo 5 de los guardaespaldas...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Cine - "El Tío Boonmee" by Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (If you think learning Spanish is hard, what about Thai? It would take a couple of months just to learn one name. At least here you've got simple names - Miguel,...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Documental - "Con mi corazón en Yambo" (With my heart in Yambo) (Where ever Yambo is - not in San Francisco, though.) will show Fri in the Sala Comunitaria del Museo Pumapungo at 10:00 and at 18:30. Free. Concierto - a concert,...
El Niño has arrived with a vengeance in the U.S. and interior areas of South America but, according to weather experts, its full impact won’t be felt in Ecuador until February and March. Some earlier predictions suggested that the most serious effects would be felt in...
