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It’s hard to believe Ecuador has entered another election year. That’s the sentiment of several political analysts following the National Elections Commission announcement Friday that voters will go to the polls February 9, 2025 to elect a president and new National Assembly. “This is the reality that [President] Guillermo Lasso presented us by imposing the...
Ecuadorians will go the polls in April to vote on 10 questions President Daniel Noboa claims are critical for success in the fight against organized drug crime and for reviving the economy. On Friday night, Noboa signed the order instructing the National Elections Commission (CNE) to organize and set a date for the election. By...
An innovative Art Exhibition at idiomART February 15 to March 1 tells the story of Cuenca’s shelter dogs and the humans who love them. Cuenca is invited to attend the opening reception of the exhibit on Thursday, February 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. with Wine to the Rescue and music by Noel Batista from...
The National Assembly failed to override President Daniel Noboa’s partial veto that reinstated a VAT increase. In fact, efforts by members of the Social Christian and Citizens Revolution blocs to gain the 92 votes necessary for an override backfired, as the anti-VAT effort lost five votes from the bill’s passage on Tuesday. Officially, the Law...
Viernes, 9/2/2024 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Concierto sinfónico – The Percuta Quenk ensamble and percussionist Fidel Zaldumbide will be featured in tonight’s performance by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca a las 20:00 in the Teatro Pumapungo. There will be a series of percussion compositions with invited percussionists playing marimbas, the vibraphone, xylaphone, congas and...
By Sydney Lupkin Sparks flew on Capitol Hill Thursday as the CEOs of three drug companies faced questions from the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about why drug prices are so much higher in the United States than they are in the rest of the world. The executives from Bristol Myers Squibb,...
By John Olson and David A. McTier Neil Simon was indisputably the most successful and prolific playwright for the Broadway stage in the 20th Century. As a lifelong New Yorker, most of his plays were set in the “Big Apple” and Simon appears to have had a love-hate relationship with his city. Nowhere is that...
In four polls taken during the last week of January and first week of February, Ecuadorians expressed overwhelming support for President Daniel Noboa’s “war” on terrorist gangs and cartels. Following a series of prison riots and the takeover of a television station in Guayaquil, Noboa declared a state of emergency based on armed internal conflict....
Universidad Católica de Cuenca is one of the few Universities that is rooting for academic excellence while providing services directed towards the Cuenca community. Two years ago, it opened the first Institute of Neuroscience in the city, providing mental health services with accessible prices for the general public. It is the first facility in the...
By Jeri Clausing Not long after I posted my first picture from Quito on Facebook, the comment I was expecting came in: “Isn’t Ecuador blowing up right now?” Hardly, I thought, slightly amused as I sat in my room in the historical Casa Gangotena hotel here, listening to children gleefully chasing pigeons and puppies in...
In what Ecuador’s Trade Ministry calls “a victory for the economy,” the National Assembly on Wednesday approved a trade agreement with China. The agreement was signed by the two governments in May 2023 but stalled when former president Guillermo Lasso dissolved the Assembly in his cross death proclamation. “This agreement will have an impact similar...
Miércoles, 7/2/2024 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Un nuevo espacio para los amantes de las orquídeas (A new space for orchid lovers) – Ecuagenera has opened a new million-dollar showroom at Gonzalo Cordero Dávila y Federico Proaño to display its dozens of species of orchids and tropical plants. Although it has a showroom at parque...
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