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By Tom Larsen We need your help so that Diana Vázquez can attend the 4th World Conference of Women and Shelters in Taiwan, Nov 5 – 9, 2019. Asociación Mujeres con Ėxito (Women with Success) and its parent organization, Fundación María Amor, provide shelter, childcare and job training for abused women. In a country where as...
Twitter has shut down 1,019 accounts in Ecuador, saying they’re mostly fake and aimed at undermining President Lenín Moreno. Twitter on Friday said the accounts tied to supporters of former president Rafael Correa attacked Moreno’s administration, focusing on free speech, government censorship and technology issues. The move by Twitter is part of a worldwide initiative...
Editor’s note: This is the second of an eight-part series about the climate and biodiversity crises. John Keeble is a former Guardian and London Evening News journalist. He is part of Cuenca’s thriving hiking, cycling and writing communities. You can download free his latest novel, Beyond Extinction, via www.johnkeeble.net. To read part one of the...
The brick, cinderblock, concrete and rebar looks the same whether you’re in Morocco, Mexico, Peru or Ecuador. Provisional, half-finished brick and cinder block dwellings. Lone structures slouching in patches of prickly pear along the highway, jagged villages clinging to hillsides and fractal barrios hemming the outskirts of major cities. What looks like abandoned construction projects...
Editor’s note: This is the first of an eight-part series about the climate and biodiversity crises. John Keeble is a former Guardian and London Evening News journalist. He is part of Cuenca’s thriving hiking, cycling and writing communities. You can download free his latest novel, Beyond Extinction, via www.johnkeeble.net. By John Keeble I wonder what...
The Ministry of Tourism says it is revising its plan to regulate tourist rentals following complaints from AirBnB, property owners and home exchange programs. Originally set to go into effect in November, the rules would require all properties rented to tourists to be registered with the tourism ministry, pay an annual tax, provide rental usage...
What are the most common crimes and misdemeanors in Cuenca? According to the new video surveillance system monitored by Cuenca’s Citizen Security Council (CSC), they are public drunkenness, public love-making and graffiti. The CSC which began operation in July with 181 cameras in parks and residential neighborhoods, has only spotted a handful of violent crimes...
By Christopher Lux Moving your household to another country with only two suitcases per person is no easy task. It becomes even harder when you’re moving to a country, like Ecuador, where many good-quality products are significantly more expensive. Of course, you can pay for extra suitcases, depending on the season, but the cost is...
National and local police are warning that thieves in Cuenca have introduced new strategies to separate victims from their money. Although they say most of the new tricks do not involve physical assault, the threat of violence always exists during robberies. Three cases have been reported in which thieves use dogs to intimidate victims. “They...
Vadim Avdeev, a former Russian military and civilian cybersecurity expert, says that Ecuador’s government was warned of inadequate data security measures long before last week’s hack that exposed the personal information of almost 20 million residents. He also says the government’s claim that former employees of the Rafael Correa government are to blame for the...
Officials in Cuenca and Manta as well as Ecuador’s tourism ministry are in discussions with two airlines about establishing flights between the two cities. Citing a study by the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro in Manta, they say that current demand justifies one or two scheduled flights a week with a “growing upside.” “Manta and Cuenca...
By a five to two vote, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court rejected a request to allow a public referendum on mining in Azuay Province. The request had been submitted by Azuay Prefect Yaku Pérez who favors banning most mining in the province. In its ruling, the court said that “the question regarding the request of the citizen...
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