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Playing with only 10 men for most of the game, Ecuador defeated Colombia on its home turf for the first time in 59 years Tuesday night. The game’s only goal was scored in the seventh minute by Tri-Color striker Enner Valencia. Colombia, the highest scoring offense in...
By Diana Hubbell In June 2020, when many Americans were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic by stress-baking sourdough, Bryan Ford challenged them to think differently about it. In his book New World Sourdough, the Bronx-born, New Orleans-raised baker with Afro-Honduran...
By Steven Grattan and Sibi Arasu Colombia’s fiery left-wing President Gustavo Petro is one of the biggest opponents of fossil fuels on the world stage today, with speeches that lump oil and coal with cocaine as his country’s “three poisons.” He’s set a goal of weaning...
The Energy Ministry said Monday that power generation at the Coca Coda Sinclair hydroelectric plant has increased as a result of rains Sunday and Monday, reaching 1,000 megawatts Monday night. In a statement, the ministry said the additional power, in combination of...
The Cuenca Fire Department reports that five major fires continue to burn within the cantonal limits, two of them “uncontained,” as of Monday night. Hundreds of firefighters from all parts of Ecuador are fighting the blazes, supported by water-drops from helicopters...
By Parmy Olson Tim Berners-Lee has a radical proposition. Instead of leaving our online data vulnerable to harvesting by large tech platforms and governments, we should control it. Our own little piece of the web or “personal cloud” should need permission to be...
At least 300 firefighters are battling wildfires in the Cajas Mountains and more personnel and equipment are enroute, Ecuador’s National Risk Management office announced late Sunday. Seven helicopters, including one from Peru, will be available by Monday afternoon for...
Energy Minister Inés Manzano announced Sunday night that blackouts will be reduced to eight hours a day from Monday to Thursday. The reduction is due to the resumption of power transfers from Colombia despite the shutdown of three hydroelectric plants at the...
Domingo, 17/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - El "arte contemporáneo" de María Verónica León (The “contemporary art” of María Verónica León) - The Ecuadorian artist María Verónica León is one of 40 artists invited to exhibit in a collective show at the Galería de...
By Mark Travers How often do you lay in bed scrolling on your phone with your partner only inches away from you, doing the very same thing? Absorbed by whatever’s happening on your separate screens, you may not even realize that you’ve spent hours next to one another...
Air quality in Cuenca reached the danger level early Saturday morning, as fires continue to burn in the Cajas Mountains. The reading of 316 in the fine particulate matter category was the highest ever recorded by the University of Azuay air quality monitoring center....
By Gail Renfroe One of the enduring stories of Christian devotion is that of Elisabeth Elliot, a missionary who inspired generations of evangelical Christians by returning to Ecuador with her toddler daughter to preach the gospel to an indigenous tribe that had killed...
The end of the world is not its destruction, but its translation into heaven. -- ACIM. To the caterpillar, the butterfly represents the end of the world. -- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now How do we make “sense” of this paradox? To some, the recent election in the USA...
Jueves, 14/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Inauguran el "Gran Piazza" en Machala (Opening of the “Gran Piazza” in Machala) - <This article is for all of you serious shoppers.> The Centro Comercial "Gran Piazza" on av. 25 de junio opened its doors today...
Three armed forces helicopters shuttled between local lakes and wildfires Thursday, dropping water from Bambi buckets on fires in the mountains near Cuenca. The fires have created smokey conditions in Cuenca and surrounding communities since early in the week. As a...
By Frances Hogg Lochow When she walked through the doors of her high school in Cuenca for the last time, Rocío Illescas knew that the world that opened before her was not big enough. Though she loved children, the life of a housewife did not appeal to her, nor did the...
As a traveler in the “developing world” one is reminded almost daily of poverty. The tired face of hunger, the plight of refugees and the limited prospects for the disabled are impossible to ignore or wish away. Ironically, one can observe similar misery in the...
Stringent security measures went into effect Wednesday in Cuenca as presidents and vice presidents from Latin American countries as well as the president of Portugal and King Felipe VI of Spain arrived for the 29th Ibero-American Summit. Although the summit is notable...
By Isabel Debre and Franklin Brinceno On the edge of Peru’s coastal desert, a remote fishing town where a third of all residents have no running water is being transformed into a huge deep-water port to cash in on the inexorable rise of Chinese interest in...
I have always had a fascination with being a pioneer, exploring a relatively wild frontier. This was much of my instinct about leaving North America, forging a life in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Never being a city person, but also never being a country person,...
