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Days away from opening, work on the new McDonald’s has been ordered stopped due to the removal of a Jacaranda tree. The restaurant is located on Av. Astudillo Florence, across the street from Parque de la Madre. The city says it had denied a request by the owners to...
From Casablanca to Athens, Doha to Prague, 28 finalists have been chosen in the New 7 Wonders Cities competition. Cuenca, which made it to the third round of 77 cities, did not make the final cut but Quito did. The competition, created by Swiss-born filmmaker and...
One of the cars for Cuenca’s new tram system, Tranvia de los Cuatro Rios, will be open to the public in Otorongo Plaza on Tuesday. In addition to the rail car, a model of a tram station will also be on display. Juan Zea, the Tranvia project coordinator, said the model...
The economic future is bright for most Latin American countries according to the director of the International Monetary Fund’s Western Hemisphere division. “Overall, we are expecting positive growth and a stable financial environment,” Alejandro...
Funding has been allocated for the repair and restoration of the Remigio Crespo Toral Museum on Calle Larga. The 110 year old building was included last month on a list of historic buildings of international value in urgent need of repair by the World Monument Fund...
By Simon Romero In the aftermath of Chile’s 1973 military coup, the Nobel Prize-winning poet and diplomat Pablo Neruda was found dead. Although he was long thought to have perished from prostate cancer, a judge recently ordered his remains exhumed from a grave...
Cuenca hotel owners are claiming that daily and weekly rentals of furnished condos and houses are hurting their business and are calling on the government to crack down on the practice. The president of the Association of Azuay Hoteliers, Daniel Hernandez, said his...
By Henry Chu Genevieve Besser knows that many people would kill to have what she's thinking of giving up. It's been her birthright for 52 years, something she's cherished and taken pride in. But being a U.S. citizen, she says, now seems more a penalty than a...
Cuenca has advanced to the third stage of the New 7 Wonders Cities competition and will find out Monday if it will be one of 28 finalists. The competition, sponsored by the website www.new7wonders.com started with 1200 nominess and was the pared to 300 before being...
In an eight-hour hearing on Thursday, an Azuay provincial judge ordered nine defendants to stand trial in the Coopera money laundering and embezzlement case. Judge Miguel Arias threw out requests from the defendants' attorneys to drop charges. Also appearing at the...
By Christie Smythe One of the financiers of an environmental lawsuit that led to a $19 billion verdict against Chevron Corp. in Ecuador told a judge that he came to regret funding the case once after learning that it may be a fraud. Burford Capital LLC Chief Executive...
Cuenca's tourism foundation has signed an agreement with the University of Cuenca's School of Hospitality Sciences to develop more accurate tourism statistics. Gladys Eljuri, executive director of the foundation, says accurate numbers will help her office plan for the...
Ecuador qualified for a World Cup berth despite a 2 - 1 loss to Chile Tuesday night in Santiago. Chile also qualified as it and Ecuador finished third and fourth in the South American group. Uruguay defeated Argentina by a goal but needed a three-goal victory to push...
Ecuador’s hot real estate market is cooling down. Following more than six years of eight percent annual appreciation nationwide and double-digit appreciation in some markets, including Cuenca, real estate developers and agents say they are seeing a slowdown in both...
Ecuador’s National Assembly overwhelmingly approved two of the three parts of the country’s new penal code Saturday night. The approved parts include 77 changes, including revisions of laws governing drivers’ licenses, traffic infractions, genocide, wrongful death,...
The National Heritage Institute is cracking down on zoning violations in Cuenca's El Ejido neighborhood, resulting in at least 10 law suits against property owners. Some property owners are fighting back, claiming the area should not be included in the protected...
By Girish Gupta and Andrew Cawthorne If you live in Venezuela and want to fly abroad, get in line. Flights are booked solid months in advance, not from a new interest in exotic destinations but because locals are profiting from a play on the nation's tightly...
Assemblywoman Paola Pabón has withdrawn a proposal that would have decriminalized abortion in the case of rape or the endangerment of a woman’s life. The move followed a threat by President Rafael Correa to resign if the proposal was adopted as part of a new criminal...
Cuenca is the first Latin American city to receive the World Heritage Cities Organization’s Jean Paul L'Allier award. The award recognizes the city’s El Barranco project, including restoration and improvements to Paseo Tres de Noviembre, Parque de la Madre, the Calle...
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino announced Tuesday that his government is considering suing the British government in the International Criminal Court in The Hague for denying Wikileaks founder Julian Assange safe passage to Ecuador. Assange has been forced to take...
