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By Michael Bartiromo And we thought mustard ice cream was a stretch. An ice cream vendor in Ecuador is reportedly seeing demand for her new — and arguably strangest — offering. It’s made using the flesh of guinea pigs. Guinea pig meat, known as “cuy” in Ecuador, is typically eaten as a savory dish there...
Cuenca garbage trucks will roll again Friday night as scheduled pick-ups resume. The announcement followed negotiations by Mayor Pedro Palacios with residents of the Santa Ana parish who have maintained a blockade of the road to the city landfill in Pichacay. Meanwhile, Azuay Prefect Yaku Perez is in talks with indigenous residents of Cañar Province...
David Morales, the owner of the Spanish security company that was in charge of protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London while Julian Assange was living there, has been arrested and released on bail, judicial sources have told the Spanish newspaper EL PAÍS. The director of UC Global S. L. is being investigated by Spain’s High...
Hundreds of city workers and volunteers cleaned historic district streets and sidewalks Thursday morning, washing away most of the evidence of Wednesday’s mass protests. The volunteers, most of them from the Universities of Cuenca and Azuay, worked with city cleaning crews and fireman in a five-square-block area beginning at 5 a.m. Three water and fire...
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) announced Thursday that it would not join negotiations with the government until three conditions are met. Conaie, Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization, criticized other indigenous and campesino organizations that are currently involved in talks mediated by the United Nations. Conaie’s refusal to negotiate follows its release of 10 police officers...
By Mark Bradbury My beautiful country of Ecuador is in turmoil, not in shambles as some would have you believe, but we are definitely going through some very trying times right now. For over 40 years, Ecuador has been subsidizing gasoline and diesel fuels, propane gas and other commodities. These things have been costing the...
Jueves, 10/10/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Effects on museums and cultural venues – Museums are closed with employees working behind closed doors and via the internet. The OSC has suspended the Festival Viva Viladi (sic). It is rehearsing Beethovan’s 9th Symphony for la próxima semana. <And I sure do...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said city government will be open for business on Thursday, a day after a nationwide strike led to violent clashes between protesters and police in the historic district. In addition to the strike, Wednesday was a national holiday honoring Guayaquil’s independence. Due the size of the protest crowd, Palacios said that...
Miércoles, 9/10/2019 Hola, Todos – Actividades – De la pagina cultural – Eurocine 2019 – Films are being shown all week a las 18:00 y 20:00 at the Alianza Francesa. Free. Festival rescheduling – The Primer Festival del Folclore “Los Andes Viven” will be changed from Wednesday to 23/10 a las 20:00 in the theater...
By Rob Bell The streets are almost deserted today in many parts of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third largest city with six hundred thousand inhabitants. Schools are closed. Most stores are closed. Roads in and out of the city are blocked by protestors. Supermarket shelves are almost empty as supplies cannot get in. In Cuenca’s central historic...
Wednesday’s national strike has brought out the largest protest crowds yet in the week-long reaction to the government’s labor reforms. The strike coincides with the Guayaquil independence national holiday. An estimated 40,000 marched in several locations in Quito, half of them part of a massive indigenous and peasant march that arrived in the city on...
Police say that new tactics and light rain helped to reduce the number of protesters in the streets of Cuenca’s historic district on Tuesday. They also credit a new strategy of moving crowds farther away from Parque Calderon for fewer and more peaceful demonstrations. Following a peaceful morning demonstration by school bus and van drivers...
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