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The Ecuador National Police’s second attempt to talk to leaders of the Sarayaku community about three fugitives went much more smoothly than the first attempt three weeks earlier. Two police […]
According to President Rafael Correa, Ecuador spends more of its gross domestic product (GDP) on higher education than any country in Latin America. Speaking yesterday at the University of Santiago […]
The day before he takes office, Cuenca Mayor-elect Marcelo Cabrera continues to complain that he did not receive the information he had requested from the administration of out-going mayor Paúl […]
Editor’s note: In the Latin American culture, a “paseo” is a break from the work-a-day world, most often a leisurely stroll or a casual get-together of friends. It can also […]
Just when most Ecuadorians can’t wait for the end to the April – May rainy season, scientists say that an El Niño weather phenomenon may be forming in the Pacific. […]
Only days after Ecuador’s election commission rejected signatures that would have forced a national referendum on oil drilling in the Yasuni national park, the government has started to accept bids […]
Ecuador’s National Telecommunications Council (Conatel) has set July 1 as the deadline for the country’s cell phone providers to make a series of service improvements. Conatel says the upgrades are […]
President Rafael Correa says that national police and military personnel will make a second attempt to capture a fugitive national assemblyman and two associates believed to be harbored by the […]
Ecuador’s government has told the U.S. Agency for International Development that it will not renew its agreements with the South American country. In a Nov. 26 letter sent to the […]
Most of Ecuador’s furniture is made in Cuenca According to the Municipal Public Enterprise for Economic Development (ESDP), 60% of the furniture manufactured in Ecuador is made in Cuenca. ESDP […]
Editor's note: Pablo Sanguinetti is director of socioeconomics research at CAF-development bank of Latin America and professor of economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires. By Pablo Sanguinetti […]
Following the expulsion of military personnel attached to the U.S. Embassy in Quito last month, the U.S. plans to eliminate funding for Ecuador’s fight against illegal drugs. “I am quite […]
Most Ecuador residential electric customers will see their electric bills increase by 10% to 12% beginning in June. Although Ecuador’s National Electricity Council (Conelec) is not saying so, the increase […]
Supporters of a national referendum on oil drilling in the Yasuní national park are calling a preliminary government rejection of almost 500,000 out of 757,000 voter signatures an “assault on […]
By Nate Singham When Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa visited the United States in April, meeting with faculty and students from universities including Harvard, Yale and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, […]
The French engineering firm Alstom has been told by the French government to stop negotiations with U.S.-based General Electric to buy part of its operations. Alstom, which has the contract […]
By Susan Schenck “I could never happen to me,” you think. But then it does. You wake up in an unfamiliar place and slowly, you become aware that you’ve had […]
Diego Aguilar, appointed by the Ecuadorian government to liquidate Coopera, says that most large investors in the failed Cuenca financial cooperative have “little chance” of recovering their money. Aguilar says […]
President Rafael Correa threatened unspecified consequences Tuesday for a fiercely independent indigenous community in Ecuador’s Amazon that is harboring three political opponents who face prison for defaming him. Correa angrily […]
Renovation work on seminary is welcomed Despite efforts to keep it under wraps, the renovation of San Luis Seminary, next to the cathedral, is probably Cuenca’s worst kept secret. The […]
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