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Cuenca transportation officials meet today with business owners who are asking that the tram construction schedule be changed for the holiday season. The business owners claim that construction will severely limit their holiday sales and put some of them out of...
Mario Ruiz, director of Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute, cautions that the day-to-day activity at the Cotopaxi volcano is not an indicator of the strength of the eventual eruption. “We are not ruling out anything, even a catastrophic eruption on the level of the 1877...
Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera has angrily rejected a threat made by bus owners to shut down municipal bus service if fares are not increased within 30 days. The owners are demanding an increase to 42 cents from the current fare of 25 cents, which was established 13...
By Dave Nelson On Thursday morning I was awakened with a jolt at 5:07 a.m. by an earthquake. It was very sharp and short, with the bed shaking for about five seconds. It was centered about 40 miles northwest of Cuenca, 5.4 magnitude, but very deep, causing no major...
Hola, Todos - Thanks to all of you who wrote to welcome me back. It´s good to be back and working again. Pagina cultural - Forum - on "El Humor y lo Burlesco" (Humor and Burlesque) Thu. at 18:00 in the Prohibido Central Cultural with Alberto del Campo Tejedor....
By Lee Dubs On October 12, Cuenca's El Mercurio newspaper featured a troublesome front-page story about toys. Due to new government fees and restrictions on imports, there are fewer toys in stores this year and they are more expensive. Consumers are feeling the pinch....
By Liam Higgins Gualaceo is 36 km (22 miles) from Cuenca, a bus ride that takes 45 minutes and costs less than a dollar. Known as “El Jardin del Azuay,” Gualaceo has a population of just under 50,000. Its tourist information center is next to a suspension bridge over...
In a Parque Calderon ceremony on Thursday morning, the city officially unveiled the printed agendas for the 2015 Cuenca independence holidays. Holiday activities kick off on Friday, October 29 and conclude on Wednesday, November 4. Among the events celebrating the...
Thursday morning’s 5.6 magnitude earthquake, 50 miles northwest of Cuenca, should be a wake-up call that all of Ecuador is in a seismically active region, according to Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute. Henry Bermeo, director of the Institute’s Seismic Network for...
By Susan Burke March, MSEd, RDN, LDN, CDE A recent Forbes.com article caught my eye—researchers found that after the defeat of their favorite football team, people eat more, and what they choose to eat makes a major impact on their waistline. But, after their favorite...
Por Susan Burke March, MS, LDN, RDN, CDE Según la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) World Health Organization (WHO), el tabaco es la única droga legal que mata a muchos de sus usuarios exactamente según lo previsto por los fabricantes. La OMS estima que cada año...
Next month’s Fifth Orquídea Cinema Festival will be headlined by the Colombian film El Abrazo de la Serpiente (The Embrace of the Serpent), winner of the Cinema Art Award at this year’s Cannes festival. The film, directed by Ciro Guerra, tells the story of first...
Ecuador’s Finance Minister Fausto Herrera says government spending will be cut by 17% in 2016. “We are preparing a very austere budget for 2016 that reflects the economic realities,” he says. The announcement was praised by several economists who said the move...
Editor’s note: This is the first of four articles that share the scientific discoveries of how changes in lifestyle can reverse coronary heart disease and prostate cancer. Heart disease and cancer are the major causes of mortality in Ecuador. The author is an...
Se le ha llamado "súper té" o "súper hoja" y las tiendas naturistas y tiendas de especialidad del café en América del Norte y Europa no pueden conseguir suficiente de él. La Guayusa, como se conoce comúnmente, se hace de la hoja guayusa ilex. Según algunos informes...
The National Front for Retirees is holding forums around the country to build support for changes to Ecuador’s Social Security system. The Front, which is a coalition of several retiree organizations, says it is worried that the system will not be able to provide...
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...
By Liam Higgins Reporting on his visit to Cuenca in 2010, Times of London travel writer Joshua Wellesey remarked, “I think I can safely claim that this charming little city has more culture per square inch than any place in the Western Hemisphere.” Although festivals...
A group of Cuenca women are in discussions with city officials to establish a Cuenca Pink Taxi service, similar to those in other cities around the world. Pink taxis give preference to women and other vulnerable groups. Owners of taxi companies say the service is not...
According to Ecuador’s National Bureau of Crimes Against Life (Dinased), the number of murders recorded in Cuenca has declined for the sixth consecutive year. As of the end of September, the city’s murder rate stands a 3.8 per 100,000 population. There have been 24...
