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By Stephen Vargha It has been said that Cuenca is a dog-friendly city. Unlike most cities in the United States, a vast majority of restaurants in Cuenca allow and welcome your canine friend onto their premises. A good number of stores welcome your dog too. Seeing someone walking a dog in Cuenca is a very...
By Aimee Gabay It was a Sunday in late February, and Eduardo Mendúa was doing what he was famous for: organising against the oil drilling that had transformed his ancestral lands in Ecuador. A member of the Indigenous Cofán people, Mendúa had seen pipelines and wells spring up throughout the rainforest his community called home. Oil...
With less than weeks weeks remaining for presidential candidates to register for the special cross death election, political experts say three strong contenders – two familiar names and a newcomer – are already known. Cuenca attorney and environmental activist Yaku Pérez announced Saturday he intends to run again for president. Pérez came within two percentage...
Six people were killed and at least seven were injured Saturday night when gunmen opened fire in a Montañita restaurant. Police are calling the attack a ‘revenge killing’ in which a gang leader of the Los Águilas was confirmed dead. As of late Sunday, only three of the dead, including Emilio López, alias Morro, had...
By Jeremiah Reardon The New Theater (TNT) is Cuenca’s recently formed English-language theater. A group of theater, design, and marketing professionals have come together with the express goal of adding to the rich cultural life of Cuenca by creating this new theater for our international city. TNT looks to present contemporary and classical theater productions, offering satisfying...
Viernes, 19/5/2023 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Agenda cultural – 20/5, 19:30 – Teatro – Las damas sin perrito (The ladies without a dog <Poor deprived ladies – life is better with a dog>) – Sala Alfonso Carrasco. 22/5, 11:00 – Exposición – Tagore en el tiempo – Museo de la Universidad de Cuenca. 24/5,...
By Arturo Torres and Samantha Schmidt A day after he dissolved the National Assembly, averting his looming impeachment but triggering new elections this year, Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso said he has no plans to run in them — and doesn’t care who replaces him. “My goal is not to prevent someone from returning to Ecuador,”...
By Will Freeman A leader in exile — or, according to the government, on the run from justice. Top cadres in jail or scattered across continents. A society still nursing the wounds of a decade of polarization. These are not exactly the makings of a political comeback. But don’t tell that to Ecuador’s left-populist ex-President...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court ruled Thursday night that President Guillermo Lasso’s use of the cross death to close the National Assembly is legal. In a unanimous vote, judges threw out six lawsuits claiming the president’s action was unconstitutional. In its statement, the court said Lasso properly invoked the cross death under constitutional rules. “Based on Article...
Four people were killed and 16 were injured during a funeral Thursday morning in Manta in what police are calling gang-related “revenge killings.” Four of those injured were children. The attack occurred at about 10 a.m. at the Jardines del Edén funeral home in Manta at the service for transit officer Andrés Moreira who was...
By Bernard Condon A dozen poor countries are facing economic instability and even collapse under the weight of hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign loans, much of them from the world’s biggest and most unforgiving government lender, China. An Associated Press analysis of a dozen countries most indebted to China — including Pakistan, Kenya,...
Almost all of President Guillermo Lasso’s political opponents are claiming his use of the muerte cruzada, or cross death, is illegal and the Constitutional Court has agreed to review the decree. Lasso is basing his decision on one of three constitutional requirements for the cross death: that a “serious political crisis and internal upheaval” is...
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