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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...

President Lenin Moreno flew to Guayaquil Monday afternoon, saying he needed to be closer to Ecuador’s military command to best manage the country’s political crisis. In a television address, the president again offered to talk with protesters although he insisted again that he would not “take back” the economic reforms he announced a week ago....

Ecuador’s interior ministry says it is mobilizing tens-of-thousands of national police and army troops to clear roadblocks that have paralyzed travel in much of the country. Manned by campesino and indigenous groups protesting economic measures announced last week by President Lenin Moreno, roadblocks have been set up in 14 of the country’s 24 provinces. Although...