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By Stephen Marche I recently heard an exchange at a playground that should worry the executives at AI companies more than any analyst’s prediction of a bubble. A boy and […]
The water levels at the Mazar reservoir and Rio Coca, the sources that power the country’s two largest electric generation plants, is dropping rapidly. On Thursday, Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (Celec) […]
Ecuador is claiming it has achieved “concrete results” in its fight against organized crime, as the country joins forces with the United States to conduct an anti-cartel military offensive. On […]
Ever since John Milton wrote his famous poem ‘Paradise Lost’, something about the word “paradise” that should make a normal person hesitate, because it nearly always comes attached to a […]
In the Achuar territory, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, scientists and indigenous communities are driving a key change. The replacement of combustion engines with solar boats is beginning to transform the […]
The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) has ordered retail outlets to begin charging the 15% value added tax on dozens of previously untaxed food items, including bread and most dairy products. […]
The Cuenca-Molleturo-Guayaquil and Cuenca-Girón-Machala highways will soon become toll roads, President Daniel Noboa announced Wednesday. Plagued for years by landslides and sinkholes, both highways have suffered frequent closures, especially during […]
You don’t notice these rules at first. Most people don’t even realize they exist. Life feels easy enough. The cafés are welcoming. The routines settle in. The city seems open. […]
By Manuela Castro and Alessandra Freitas Along Vespucio Sur Avenue, one of the main strips of Santiago, Chile, a massive real estate billboard advertises a new housing complex: “Green areas, […]
Drug traffickers are perfecting their methods of evading controls at Ecuador’s ports, according to the International Narcotics Control Board, a United Nations agency. “Traffickers of cocaine and other illegal drugs […]
Bored? (De El Mercurio del martes, 31/3) En muestra pictórica se resalta rostros y paisajes (Art exhibition highlights faces and landscapes) – The exhibit, “Rostros, Naturaleza, Rincones: Ecuador en acuarela” […]
There is something almost touching about a judge asking a simple question and getting no answer. Not a philosophical answer, not a constitutional answer, just a practical one. How, exactly, […]
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. As we draw nearer to the end of National Nutrition Month consider some of the following ways to help improve our nutritional intake as […]
As gasoline and diesel prices soar in most of the world, Ecuadorians are only seeing small increases at the pump. In a recent survey of Latin American countries, Ecuadorians were […]
Bored? – (De El Mercurio del sábado, 28/3) Semana de retiro de cuaresma (Lenten Retreat Week) – <Pardon me for using a translation program, but I have no idea how […]
By Katie Surma By the time Olger Kitiar reached the ridge, his shirt was wet with sweat, clinging to his back. Built with the solid frame of a linebacker, he […]
While the National Electoral Council defends its decision to bring forward regional elections from February 14, 2027 to November 29, 2026, some critics are calling it an “act against democracy.” […]
The first time I saw “Gringolandia” listed as a neighborhood in Cuenca, I assumed I had missed a municipal announcement. Perhaps the city council had quietly created a new parish, […]
Editor’s note: Cuenca’s Easter soup, fanesca, is considered by many to be the best in Latin America and it is a tradition among Cuencanos to have at least one bowl […]
Traders and transport operators have suspended a 19-day blockade at the Rumichaca International Bridge, the primary land crossing between Colombia and Ecuador. The protest, prompted by a 50% tax imposed […]
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