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Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Horarios especiales en museos (Special hours at museums) – Starting today, the Sistema Municipal de Museos has special hours for the fiestas de Cuenca from 9:00 to 17:00. Enjoy special exhibits and activities with local artists and craftspeople at the Museo de Arte...
By Karla Sánchez Arismendi For the past two years, Joel Munn, a retired ski instructor from Breckenridge, Colorado, has been working non-stop to make a difference in the lives of the poor people on the streets of Cuenca and surrounding communities. He is the founder of Snow Angels in Ecuador. “Every day, walking through El...
Dry weather and careless agricultural land-clearing are responsible for more than a dozen wildfires in rural areas near Cuenca, the fire department says. Some of the largest fires continued to burn Monday near Turi, San Joaquin, Zona Soldados and in the upper basin of the Rio Machangara. Juan Solis, spokesman for the Bomberos de Cuenca,...
Lunes, 2/11/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Otras cosas – Titular – Parque se deteriora (Park deteriorates) – See Monday’s CHL article for story. El Día de los Difuntos con pocas visitas al cementerio (All Souls’ Day with few visits to the cemetery) – Restrictions on visits to the cemetery have hurt vendors around the...
By Gustavo Flores-Macías With at least half of United States voters worried about the fairness of the election and the president not conceding if he loses the election, America’s once-exceptional democracy increasingly resembles the political landscape in other parts of the world. Latin America’s experience with contested transitions and post-electoral uncertainty can provide useful lessons for the...
According to area residents, Cuenca’s IctoCruz megapark is in urgent need of maintenance. Opened in March 2019, the 56 hectare park is the largest of the city’s four megaparks, offering a variety of recreational features including bike paths, mountain biking tracks, bird watching stations, picnic and barbecue facilities and a children’s play area. “This is...
By Sandee LaMotte and Virginia Langmaid The spread of Covid-19 among members in a household after one person is infected is “common” and occurs quickly after illness onset, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The person exposed or suspected of having Covid-19 should be isolated before getting...
Editor’s note: This is the third in an ongoing series that examines how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy Jeff and Joe Fithian are “freshies”: twin brothers who moved to Cuenca less than a year ago. After each racked up over 20 years...
Viernes, 30/10/2020 – Hola, Todos – Agenda – Martes, 3 de noviembre: 8:00 – Te Deum – Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción. 9:30 – Entrega de ofrendas en conmemoración al Bicentenario de Independencia de Cuenca (Delivery of offerings in commemoration of the Bicentennial of Independence of Cuenca) <A 200 year old plate of cuy, discovered...
Bolivia’s outgoing parliament approved a motion recommending that ex-interim president Jeanine Anez and her ministers face justice for responsibility over last year’s unrest which left around 30 people dead. The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, meeting in joint session, approved on Thursday a parliamentary report on the “massacres of Senkata, Sacaba and Yapacani, which...
By Kristen Rogers In the deadly fall wave of the 1918 flu pandemic, millions of people were doomed because they didn’t know what we know now about how viruses and respiratory illnesses spread. We might face a similar fate if some people continue to ignore what a century of scientific progress and hindsight have taught...
Jueves, 29/10/2020 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Del cuerpo del periodico – Ecuagenera se reactiva con el OrchidFest 2020 (Ecuagenera reactivates with OrchidFest 2020) – Ecuagenera reopened el 24/10 with OrchidFest 2020 which will run until el 3/11. The show has over 600 species of orchids from the Coast, Sierra, y Amazonía. Visitors receive an...
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