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Dave Nelson

Editor’s note: Long-time expat Dave Nelson died early Friday morning in Cuenca. He was 93. Born in a small town on the Oregon coast, Dave spent most of his professional […]

Surprise!!  Perhaps it is a stretch to say, after a five month hiatus, that I am still writing my Cuenca Notes but here I am and that is what it […]

For many years I have believed there is systemic racism in the U.S. regarding our Black population. The needless deaths of Blacks at the hands of the police, the many […]

I look at Facebook daily and it is distressing to continually see the labels socialist, radical and now “Marxist” used as epithets, thrown at any idea or activity that does […]

I have always been a reader, taught to read by my mother before I started school in 1935, and have continued to read, although not as ardently as some. So, […]

March 25. Silence. The lockdown on March 17 with the standard restrictions, also limited automobile traffic, and it got pretty quiet on the very busy street that my apartment overlooks. […]

I woke up on November 13 and, as I lay in bed before getting up, I realized that  something was different. I felt alert and very alive but I had […]

I grew up in a small town, Tillamook, on the Oregon coast in the 1930’s and 40’s in an intact family of mother, father and three evenly spaced boys. Aside […]

I am very encouraged by the number and intensity of the various uprisings and demonstrations going on around the world. The poor, the dispossessed, the mistreated, the left out, are […]

It feels so good to be not only sitting here typing but also wanting to. It has been a while since my last column so perhaps an explanation is in […]

It was a great day in Cuenca. As usual, I woke up alert, the sun was shining and continued until mid-afternoon (although there would be rain later from the clouds […]

It has been three months since my last column and I have been sitting here in front of my computer screen for two hours trying to decide how to begin […]

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Week of July 26

United States keeps 10% tariff on nearly half of Ecuador’s non-oil exports.

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El Niño threat sends new price signals through Ecuador’s export markets.

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Suspended movements force candidates to search for new paths to the ballot.

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