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Ecuador’s Central Bank reported Monday that the country’s GDP grew by 1.7% in the last quarter of 2016 and says it expects similar results for the first quarter of 2017. During his Saturday “Citizens Link” television broadcast, President Rafael Correa claimed that Ecuador is “in full growth mode”. “We experienced four consecutive quarters of negative...
National police have arrested a man identified at José Víctor Y. for two recent Cuenca murders. Prior to Sunday’s arrest, police said the considered the perpetrator a “serial murder.” The suspect is accused of the murders of Disney Maybelline O. and Rosa Regina C., both of which were described as “brutal” by Deputy Minister of...
President Rafael Correa is accusing the polling organization Cedatos, the Citizen Participation Corporation (CPC) and media outlets of attempting to manipulate the outcome of the last week’s presidential runoff election. In an exit poll released shortly after the April 2 election, Cedatos named Guillermo Lasso the winner by six points, prompting Lasso to give his...
By Dawisson Belem Lopes Atacama is a cool and arid region that occupies a continuous strip for about 1,000km along the coast of the northern third of Chile, reaching as far as the Peruvian border in the north. As the driest desert zone on Earth, it is a good metaphor to describe Latin America’s current...
Hola, Todos – Pagina cultural – Libros recomendados (recommended books <although if I have to translate that, how do you expect to read the books?> Biografía del Silencio by Pablo D’Ors, published by Siruela 2017 Dime Quién Soy by Julia Navarro, published by De Bolsillo Sinuhé, El Egipcio by Mika Waltari, published by De Bolsillo...
By Andres Schipani Ecuador’s president-elect swept to victory this week partly on the coat-tails of Rafael Correa, the country’s mercurial leader, who anointed him as his successor. But, he insists: “I will be making the decisions in the next government. I will apply my style, which is a different style.” “People know me as a...
Cuenca’s historic center committee is taking aim at graffiti in the city’s historic district. The committee has organized a work minga on Saturday and is equipping volunteers from 29 organizations with solvent, gloves, brushes, and paint in a campaign to eliminate graffiti in El Centro. According to committee director Pablo Barzallo, the campaign is the result of...
Hola, Todos – Pagina cultural – Today’s agenda events – Carmen – Bizet’s Carmen will be presented today at 20:00 by the Department of Arts in the U. of Cuenca. The work, “basada en el teatro fisico para sequencias actorales en las que se incorporá particuras musicales para propuestas de montaje” (based on the physical...
My morning routine includes listening to podcasts from a variety of NPR radio shows as I walk on the Tomebamba. Yesterday, I was in stitches listening to the food safety expert describing how most people’s kitchen sinks were best suited to hosting a riotous party for bacteria! I can’t shake this image of elfin bacteria...
By Ernesto Londoño Lenín Moreno, Ecuador’s president-elect, has described being a paraplegic as a blessing. People who walk, he explained a few years ago, keep their gaze trained forward and upward. “When you don’t have legs, you look down,” he said in 2012, when he was vice president, during a visit to the World Bank....
Property and business owners in Cuenca’s historic district say they are still waiting for a definite schedule of when the tranvia will go into service. “We ask and we ask and never get a clear answer,” says clothing store owner Jorge Ramos. “Knowing this affects our livelihood and we are frustrated at not getting a...
President-elect Lenin Moreno met Thursday with 60 ambassadors from foreign countries and said his office would be open to all of them. “My door will always be open and my intention is to establish cordial, cooperative relationships with all governments of the world,” he said. “Even when nations disagree, I believe they can find common...
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