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By Liam Higgins Cuenca resident Kathy McClary recalls the day, a year ago, when she suffered what she calls an “expat panic attack.” “I was having my morning coffee in […]
By Deke Castleman The taxi took a left off Las Americas at Avenida del Toril, then a right on Camino a Patamarca, and we were in Parroquia Hermano Miguel, just […]
Growing up in the U.S., I never gave much thought to residential areas without sidewalks. The first time I saw an area without sidewalks occurred when my grandmother took me […]
Mexican university students are taking to the streets, demanding that the government go after criminal gangs they say murder with impunity. Student leaders claim that the government is intimidated by […]
Cynthia: Well, Edd, we did it–three books in three months. “Living the Dream” is out today! Edd: Yep. If we had known how insane this idea was and how much […]
The U.S. has signed an agreement to support Ecuador in its campaign to keep drug traffickers out of the country. The agreement, which invites the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) […]
According to Ecuador’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), Quito will be Ecuador’s largest city after the 2020 national census. INEC predicts that Quito will have a population of […]
The local taxi cooperative hopes that larger taxis will soon be cruising Cuenca streets. “We’re waiting for the National Transit Agency to give us approval to replace some of the […]
Editor’s note: How would you rate the world’s top travel destinations? The Flight Network, one the largest international travel websites, asked the question to 800 travel professionals. Among their top […]
Peruvian authorities have detained two men suspected of lynching a Canadian man in a remote part of the country’s Amazon rainforest in an apparent reprisal attack for the killing of […]
The decision of six members of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) to suspend their membership has left the Quito-based organization on life support. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay […]
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi Three cups of talent, 2/5 cup of laughter, three spoons of family drama, four cups of love and five of bad words. With the premiere […]






















