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By Deke Castleman and David Morrill Most foreign visitors start their first tour of Cuenca at Parque Calderón and many expats pass through the park on a daily basis. Despite the recent restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the park remains full of people, the...
By Steven Grattan and Godofredo Vasquez An oil tanker sat docked at Chevron’s sprawling refinery in Richmond on Thursday — a visible link between California’s appetite for Amazon crude and the remote rainforest territories where it’s extracted. Just offshore, bundled...
Interior Minister John Reimberg followed through Thursday with his threat to “name names” of corrupt judges and prosecutors. "I don't see a problem with revealing judges and prosecutors who release violent criminals from custody," he said on his X account. “Since it...
Start of Inti Raymi at the Ingapirca complex - The Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural (INPC) presented the agenda for the Inti Raymi festivities at the Complejo Arqueológico Ingapira which starts with a walk on the Qhapaq Ñan this Friday at 6:00. Friday, 20/6...
By Monserrat Peters and Gavin Voss Recent cases have once again highlighted the criminal infiltration of Ecuador’s police and military personnel, adding to what is a long history of close ties between criminal groups, the drug business, and the country’s security...
I’ve spent a decent chunk of my life standing in government offices clutching a folder full of notarized, apostilled, cross-referenced documents, while someone behind a glass screen frowns at page 7 and tells me it should’ve been printed on A4 paper. If you’ve...
Life expectancy is one of the clearest indicators of any country’s quality of life and overall well-being. The world’s average life expectancy, estimated to be around 73 years in 2024, has been increasing steadily, up from 66 years in the year 2000. However, some...
By David Morrill With the notable exception of the Otavalan craftspeople and merchants, no other indigenous Ecuadorian community has maintained its ethnic identity like the Saraguros. Centered around the town of Saraguro, 75 miles south of Cuenca, the Saraguro nation,...
The Fabulous Cadillacs play Cuenca -- As part of their 40th anniversary world tour, the legendary Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs will perform in Cuenca Thursday, June 19, at the Alejandro Serrano Aguilar Stadium. The group is best-known for its 1980s hits Mal...
By Jonathan Mason A diplomatic argument is growing in the Americas after a letter from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The letter was sent on May 24 to all members of the Organization of American States (OAS). It asked if they have deals with...
By Dorothy Neufeld Over the past decade, freedom has sharply declined in many countries. Authoritarian leaders have expanded their power by rewriting constitutions, silencing the media, and suppressing opposition. As democratic institutions erode, waves of protest...
The government has asked the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (Unicef) for assistance to tackle organized crime gangs recruiting minors amid a national insecurity crisis. Vice President María José Pinto emphasized the need for comprehensive...
Big changes are planned for Cuenca’s botanical gardens, located at the confluence of the Yanuncay and Tarqui rivers. Work begins this month on a climate-controlled tropical plant dome that will display what biologists describe as the “full range of Amazon and lowland...
How can older adults in Ecuador, lead healthy, active lives? How can they find competent medical care and other professional services they can trust? How do they tailor their living arrangements to the changing conditions of aging? These were the questions addressed...
By Mickal Aranha One day in 1983, while studying a hand-drawn map from 1792 of his hometown in Ecuador, Galo Ramón, a historian, came across a dispute between a landowner and two local Indigenous communities, the Coyana and the Catacocha. The boundary conflict...
By Jessica Puckett Across Europe’s most popular destinations this weekend, the weather forecast says cloudy with a chance of water guns. Coordinated anti-tourism demonstrations, which recently have taken the form of crowds of locals spraying tourists with water...
President Daniel Noboa has ordered audits of the personal assets of judges who allow some criminal to go free. The audits will be carried out by the Financial and Economic Analysis Unit (UAFE) in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior. The order follows...
By Jason Koebler Diego Mosquera has a lot of neighbors: Jaguars, rare dogs, anteaters, ocelots, thousands of species of birds and an estimated 100,000 different species of insects. Mosquera manages the Tiputini Biodiversity Station deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, which...
By Kristen Miglore You keep mustard in the fridge, but your partner (or roommate or dad) balks at the idea. Who’s right? The fine print on the bottle, on nearly all of the bottles — “refrigerate after opening” — isn’t much help. Turns out, that urging is rarely about...
By Stewart McCorvey Becoming an expat shapes your personality as it takes you through a journey of life struggles and challenges. Every expat goes through very particular circumstances, but there are certain things that almost all of them will have experienced. I have...
