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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,...
Martes, 12/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Controversia por Vicepresidencia (Controversy over Vice-Presidency) - See article in today's (martes) CHL for story. Cuenca - <Now here's the story to scare the dickens out of you> Si no llueve esta semana...
The United Workers' Front (FUT) is planning anti-government protests Wednesday and Thursday in Cuenca, coinciding with the Ibero-American Summit. Calling it a ‘counter summit,’ FUT President José Villavicencio said the mobilization is intended to make world leaders...
Claiming the disqualification of his presidential candidacy bears a “strong resemblance” to the suspension of Vice President Veronica Abad, Jan Topic says he plans to appeal Sunday’s ruling by Contentious Electoral Tribunal. “The decision overturned the approval of my...
Lunes, 11/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del viernes, 8/11 (1 article): Epicentro Cultural impulsa el arte desde la academia (Epicentro Cultural promotes art from academia) - The U. of Cuenca announced the Primer Festival of its Epicentro Cultural,...
Legal experts say the Ministry of Labor’s decision to suspend Vice President Verónica Abad for 150 days is unconstitutional. The suspension, announced Saturday, would prevent Abad from assuming presidential duties, as prescribed by law, from President Daniel Noboa...
I consider those of us expats who have been living in Ecuador for a number of years and have integrated well with the local culture to be the lucky ones. Especially in the campo, where I live, the locals are a wealth of important knowledge. Our village, named Jadan,...
By Stephen Vargha It is a global problem: Graffiti. In a 2017 technical paper, Valspar, a U.S. manufacturer of paint and coatings, said graffiti is a global problem. In the United States, it was a $13 to $15 billion per year mess. This was prior to the Covid pandemic....
A day after the Energy Minister Inés Manzano announced blackout hours would increase from six to eight hours a day beginning Sunday, the Ministry of Energy and Mines issued a statement Saturday morning that blackouts would be 12 hours on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday...
Bolivia’s constitutional court has barred former President Evo Morales from running again for elected office, preventing him from contesting next year’s presidential election. The ruling, made public on Friday, also reaffirms a 2023 court order that a president cannot...
Two months before the official beginning of the election campaign, legal experts say President Daniel Noboa is almost out of options for preventing Vice President Verónica Abad from assuming presidential duties during the campaign. Under the constitution, a president...
Energy Minister Inés Manzano announced Friday morning that power blackouts will increase to eight hours a day on Sunday, up from the current six hours. "Unfortunately, drought conditions affecting our hydroelectric generation do not allow us to maintain the six-hour...
By Helen Rosner Twenty-seven years ago, Texas Monthly, the venerable “national magazine of Texas,” published a ranking of the state’s fifty best barbecue joints. The magazine had named the state’s best barbecue before, but the Top Fifty was an extraordinary feat of...
Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure after finding 13 metric tons of the drug hidden in a shipment of bananas in a container from Ecuador in the southern port of Algeciras. The amount, discovered on Oct. 14. breaks the previous record in Spain when 9.4...
Jueves, 6/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - VIII Festival Internacional de Tradiciones y Culturas (VIII International Festival of Traditions and Cultures) - Cuenca is preparing for the 8th edition of the Festival Internacional de Tradiciones y Culturas which...
By Tammy Ziv Dear baby boomers, we are sorry to tell you that these things were never cool, it’s time to accept that. In the 1950’s and 60’s there was a big rise in births in America, so much so, that it was dubbed a “baby boom”. The children born between 1946 and...
By Mark Stevenson For the last six years, Mexico bragged about its oft-questioned “hugs, not bullets” strategy, in which its leaders avoided confrontations with drug cartels that were gradually taking control of large parts of the country. The thinking was that social...
As a result of technical problems at the Coca Codo Sinclair hydroelectric plant, two of the three generation plants at the Paute-Mazar complex have been forced back into service. Last week, the Energy Ministry announced it would keep the Paute-Mazar plants out of...
