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Cuencana Airlines announced Friday that it will begin air taxi service between Cuenca and Guayaquil beginning in March. The flights, operating under charter status with the Ecuador Civil Aviation Directorate, will use three 14-passenger Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft. Marcelo Carvallo, director of Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport, said that Cuencana will also offer charter flights...
The owner of a fleet of Ecuadorian flagged boats that allegedly provided support to cocaine-laden vessels in the Eastern Pacific has been extradited to San Diego from Spain to face drug conspiracy charges. Pedro Cornelio Pilligua Iduarte, 48, arrived in San Diego and made his first appearance in federal court on Friday. He was indicted...
By David Morrill and Deke Castleman The large influx of foreigners to Cuenca in the past decade-and-a-half has turned this Andean city into a world-class laboratory experiment for what immigration experts call “amenities migration” or “voluntary migration.” In the early years, expats were overwhelmingly retirees from the U.S. and Canada. While older North Americans still...
By Elliot Spagat Seated on a metal folding chair in the front row among dozens of asylum-seekers awaiting Covid tests in Arizona, Gloria Estela Vallora reaped the benefits of her Colombian passport. She and eight family members, ranging in age from 4 to 63, flew to Cancun for two nights in the Mexican beach resort...
By Robert Milders If Agnes Edwards worked in the comedy trade, where timing is everything, she wouldn’t be quite ready for the downtown comedy club, much less prime time. In her February 10 commentary on this website, Agnes encourages expats to report those who use or sell fake vaccine cards. She seems to relish the...
By David Leonhardt The C.D.C. describes medium-rare hamburgers as “undercooked” and dangerous. The agency also directs Americans to avoid raw cookie dough and not to eat more than a teaspoon or so of salt every day. And the C.D.C. tells sexually active women of childbearing age not to drink alcohol unless they are on birth...
The Paris ambassadors of Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic condemned “in the strongest terms” the sale of pre-Hispanic artifacts organized by auction houses, scheduled for early March. In their joint statement, they called for the auctions to be halted. They denounced what they said was the “continuation of practices linked to...
The National Assembly’s Justice Commission will present a new proposal to the full Assembly today in hopes of breaking an impasse on reforming Ecuador’s abortion law. According to commission president Alejandro Jaramillo, the new report will include time periods in which abortions to end pregnancies resulting from rape can be legally performed. The Assembly has...
Jueves, 10/2/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Mujeres científicas, protagonistas de exposición (Women scientists, stars of exhibit) – Starting today, girls and women involved in science will the main characters of a schedule of activities around the Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia. The exhibit “Mujeres protagonistas de la ciencia”...
By Nathan Strauss On Bolivia’s scenic Isla del Sol, terraced hillsides and ancient ruins offer otherworldly vantage points over the seemingly endless expanse of Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest lake. The mythological birthplace of the first Incans, Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo, lures hikers and history buffs with its weathered ruins and waterside paths. It’s...
In his first interview since returning from China, President Guillermo Lasso pledged that the details of negotiations with Beijing on trade and debt restructuring will be made public. “Information of all our talks with China will be made available to all Ecuadorians,” Lasso said Wednesday in Quito. “This was one of my conditions with President...
Miércoles, 9/2/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Titular – USD 300 mil falsos ($300,000 counterfeit) – The Prosecutor’s Office and Policía Nacional executed an operation in which 4 people who were part of a counterfeiting organization were arrested in San Pablo de Tenta, Saraguro Canton, Loja Province. Police seized 16,600 sheets of paper printed with...
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