David Morrill
By David Morrill Cuenca´s Museo de las Culturas Aborigenes, or Museum of Aboriginal Culture, is not your typical roadside attraction. Despite the fact that it is relatively small and privately owned, many consider it one of Ecuador’s best archeology and anthropology museums. Operated by La Fundacion Cultural Cordero, the museum displays the private collection of...
Few webcam users master the theatrical elements of on-camera presence. Because of the camera’s in-your-face vantage point, subjects’ noses and mouths appear too big while bad lighting puts them either in shadow or provides a dentist’s view of stained incisors and chapped lips. Almost always, there’s a goof-ball element to the homemade broadcasts, whether they...
Rafael Correa should have seen it coming. All he had to do, in fact, was listen to what his soon-to-be successor was saying on the campaign trail. As it was, Correa seemed blind-sided almost from the moment Lenin Moreno took office. Correa’s hospital convalescence from pneumonia, immediately following the inauguration, was a fitting metaphor. Even before...
By David Morrill According to Lee Dubs, the decision to sell Carolina Bookstore after 11 years was easy. “It was simply time to move on,” he says, adding, “Carol and I are not getting any younger and there are other things we’d like to do.” Lee and his wife and business partner Carol officially handed...
To understand what’s at stake in next month’s presidential election, it’s important to first consider Rafael Correa’s enormous impact on Ecuador. The election will be, in large part, a referendum on his presidency. It’s also important to understand that Correa’s former vice president and heir apparent, Lenin Moreno, could steer the country on a dramatically...
By David Morrill Looking around the Manhattan bar and grill where he worked in 1989, Freddy Vasquez told himself it was the kind of place he wanted to own one day. “It had three floors, which meant you could have different activities going on with their own private spaces,” he says. “It had a comfortable,...
By David Morrill For Cuenca tour guide Carlos Lara, life offers no greater pleasure than watching the birds. “I love doing anything outdoors. For me, there is nothing better than escaping the artificial world, where we spend most of our lives, and going out to explore nature,” says Lara. “The very best of nature, however,...
By David Morrill and Greg Medeiros Health care and health insurance options for Ecuador expats changed dramatically at the beginning of 2014 when the government allowed legal residents to join the country’s Social Security (IESS) health care program for a monthly fee. Before, choices for foreign residents were limited to private health insurance plans with...
As the initial shock of Saturday night’s earthquake gives way to the grim reality of human and property losses, Ecuador confronts the biggest reconstruction project in its history. Before that begins, however, comes the search and rescue and search and recovery efforts for hundreds, possibly thousands, of people buried under the rubble. That process began...
Gabriela Carrión, owner of Cazhuma Tours in Cuenca, never forgets what it’s like to be a tourist. “If you are not out there checking the details of the tours, you don’t know what your clients are experiencing,” she says. “Are they booked for uncomfortable 12-hour or 15-hour days? Are they served a good variety of...
By David Morrill At 75, Cuenca ceramicist Eduardo Segovia shows no sign of slowing down. On most days, in fact, you can find him hard at work in his Cuenca studio, just west of the historic district. “I still have the enthusiasm for creation. I can’t imagine life without it,” says Segovia. “Every day, I...
Rafael Correa is a megalomaniac, a loud-mouth, a control freak, a religious fanatic, the architect of a nanny state, a muzzler of free speech, and a court-packer. He is, by turns, intolerant, insulting, insensitive, paranoid, condescending and thin-skinned. He is also the best president Ecuador has had in decades, possibly since Eloy Alfaro at the...
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