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Incoming international travelers are experiencing delays of 30 to 40 minutes at the international airports in Quito and Guayaquil due to new government rules that tax some items purchased overseas. […]
Por Susan Burke March, MS, RDN, LDN, CDE La columna de esta semana está dedicada a los dos principales mitos sobre el alcohol. En las próximas semanas voy a cubrir […]
The plan to revitalized Cuenca’s historic district, announced last week, includes “cyclable corridors” to promote use of bicycles for basic transportation and to reduce the need for cars and buses. […]
Hotel owners have complained before about unfair competition from the growing number of daily and weekly rental properties in the Cuenca market, many of them owned by expats and foreigners. […]
Anti-government protests in Quito, Cuenca, and several other cities were mostly peaceful and smaller than expected, according to Ecuador’s national police. In Cuenca, about 250 marchers made their way up […]
A tsunami alert was issued for most of the Pacific Ocean basin following a magnitude 8.3 earthquake just off the coast of northern Chile early Wednesday night. The alert at […]
Ecuador’s capital, Quito, was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and was one of the first cities named a UNESCO Heritage site. “The city has the best-preserved, least […]
Wildfires have consumed as much as 800 hectares in the Cajas Mountains, west of Cuenca, while residents were ordered to evacuate several neighborhoods near out-of-control fires in Quito. As of […]
Anti-government protests are scheduled today across Ecuador although national police say they expect fewer participants than during the August national strike. The protests are being organized by indigenous, labor, and […]
Es la temporada de incendios forestales en la región Sierra de Ecuador y los bomberos municipales de Cuenca se unieron a los departamentos de bomberos rurales el lunes, en la […]
It’s the wildfire season in Ecuador’s sierra region and Cuenca municipal firefighters joined rural fire departments on Monday in battling more than three dozen blazes, some of them still out […]
The ninth edition of Cuenca’s Festival Escenarios del Mundo, or International Theater Festival, begins Wednesday, September 16, with a parade through the historic district and the performance of the Mexican […]



















