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Latin Americans are the most emotional people on the planet while the world’s least emotional people hail from countries in Eastern Europe, a new survey shows. Bolivia and El Salvador […]
The growing global demand for quinoa by health food enthusiasts isn’t just raising prices for the Andean “super grain” and living standards among Bolivian farmers. Quinoa fever is running up […]
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 […]
There are too many pigeons in Cuenca — more than a million, according to one ornithologist — and their overpopulation is creating public health concerns, city health officials say. Property […]
By Lex Cunningham Ecuador has lost 30 percent of its snowcaps in the last three decades and if global warming continues at this rate, in 70 years its glaciers will […]
By Jim Wyss For more than 80 years, Quito has been guarded by a strange array of kitschy castles — brimming with turrets and towers, spires and faux drawbridges, Moorish […]
Cuenca not only has the best drinking water in Ecuador, it also has the cleanest rivers. A report on water quality by government biologists and hydrologists, credits the the sewage […]
By Nicole Akoukou Thompson The Dominican Republic has a saying, “We’re black behind the ears.” And in Mexico, “there’s a black grandma in the closet.” Both statements refer to a […]
By Janet Novack There’s good news and bad news for baby boomers. The good news is that despite concerns about meager retirement savings, baby boomers aren’t going to have to […]
By Diana Iglesias More than two-thirds of Bolivian women have suffered domestic violence, according to a report out Thursday that found such abuse widespread in Latin America, with partners usually […]
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 […]
By Liam Higgins He is called Guagua Grande by the indigenous people living in the Cajas Mountains west of Cuenca. He was called the Monstruo de las Cajas in a […]



















