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If you’re from the U.S. and assumed you’d miss out on an old-fashion 4th of July party in the park this year, you’re in luck. Supermaxi supermarkets, La Europea delis, along with co-sponsers Cuenca Dispatch, GringoTree, Hearts of Gold, and CuencaHighLife, are hosting a traditional 4th of July celebration Tuesday night in Parque de la...
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly announced new aviation security measures Wednesday impacting overseas airports that have direct flights to the United States. The measures do not include a ban on large electronic devices in the passenger compartment of aircraft on all international flights entering or departing the U.S., as had been been suggested. The electronics...
Hola, Todos – Pagina cultural – Upcoming and ongoing agenda events – Cine – The film cycle “El diseño Invisible al servicio del Cine” (The Invisible design at the service of the Cinema) <Not sure what that means – maybe all the work that goes into films that isn’t the acting? Like lighting and costumes?>...
Ecuador has asked Taiwan’s de facto embassy in the country to remove “Republic of China” from its name, the Taiwanese foreign ministry revealed Tuesday, attributing it to pressure from mainland China, technically the Peoples Republic of China. The Ecuadorian government asked Taiwan to change the name of its “Commercial Office of the Republic of China”...
President Lenin Moreno said Tuesday that the federal government will make sure Cuenca has the financial resources to complete the city’s tram system. The project, which is almost 90% complete, is two years behind schedule and awaiting a new project manager. Moreno made the pledge in a meeting with Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera at the...
Hola, Todos – Pagina cultural – Upcoming and ongoing agenda events – Vocal technique workshop – The Intensivo Internacional de Técnica Vocal workshop will be in the Imay Centro Cultural on 8 & 9/7. Monument – On 4/7 at 10:00, a monument to the Mariscal José Domingo La Mar y Cortázar will be inaugurated in...
Forty Quito police were called in to separate groups opposing and supporting a bus fare increase. The disturbance began outside the metropolitan council building as members debated increasing bus fare from 25 to 30 cents. Police reported some pushing and shoving and angry verbal exchanges before order was restored to a crowd estimated at 500....
By Ana Bulnes Are you taking a road trip this summer? If you’re going to be driving abroad, you should take a bit of time to research their local driving habits and their driving laws — things you’re used to doing when driving at home might be illegal in other countries. For example, do you...
Claiming that penalties for driving offenses are too often disproportionate to the crime, the Cuenca municipal government is asking for changes to Ecuador’s Integrated Criminal Code (COIP). “The best example of the problem is sending drivers to jail for speeding,” says Adrián Castro, manager of Cuenca’s transportation office. “One driver receives a fine for exceeding...
Depositors in an illegal banking operation shut down over the weekend in Cuenca and Santa Isabel may have a long wait to recoup their money. And there may not be much money to recoup, officials warn. According to Azuay Province prosecutor Adrian Rojas, MTCoin, or Banco del Futura as it was also known, did not...
Hola, Todos – Pagina cultural – Upcoming and ongoing agenda events – Exposición – “Divergente” will be at the Galería Yuyay (Luis Moscoso y Manuel Egnacio Ochoa) until 15/7. The show is of work by students in the 7th cycle of visual arts. Book launch – “Situación Actual de la Población Adulta mayor del Ecuador”...
By Sara Shahriari Panama hats have made the leap from the heads of Hollywood icons and intrepid jungle explorers to the fashionable masses of Europe and the United States. Models are wearing them on catwalks and teenagers are sporting them at clubs. Since 2014, a number of fashion magazine articles and cable tv shows proclaimed that the Panama...
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Week of April 28
General Motors Auto Parts Manufacturer Laments: “Today Marks a Dark Day for the National Industry”.
Minister Requests Resignations in Termogás Machala, Dubbed ‘Epicenter of Energy Inefficiency’.
Chevrolet to Cease Car Assembly in Ecuador by August, Production to Halt in Colombia.