Sylvan Hardy
By Sylvan Hardy Long-time expats might remember the old Bapu Restaurant on Calle Larga, a couple doors west of today’s Sunrise Café. Before closing its doors in 2010, it offered some of the best food –and the only Indian food– in Cuenca. Bapu returned in 2016 and has proven to be as good as ever....
By Maureen & Bruce Stewart & Sylvan Hardy In business for only four months, Calvo & Co. on Calle Los Alamos, just west of Av. Las Americas, is setting a new standard for sandwiches in Cuenca and more than a few of its newly won fans claim its signature hamburger, made with 100 percent ox...
I don’t check my news feed very often but when I do there’s almost always an update on the adventures of internet security pioneer, purveyor of cryptocurrency intrigue and U.S. presidential candidate John McAfee. In case you missed recent reports, McAfee was taken off his yacht and arrested on firearms charges in the Dominican Republic...
By Sylvan Hardy When Ronny Bustamante and Vera Boonyatarp heard that Cuenca’s Thai Connection restaurant was for sale, the timing couldn’t have been better. “We were living in Quito at the time and were ready to make a change in our lives,” says Ronny. “We had been talking about starting a restaurant and the opportunity...
By Sylvan Hardy Expat newcomers to Cuenca, and even old-timers, are often led to believe that there are limited options when it comes to finding affordable property in the country. “When I moved here two years ago, everybody told me that the only places to look if you wanted a place out of town were...
By Sylvan Hardy It came as no surprise when President Lenin Moreno, two weeks ago, referred to former president Rafael Correa as the “opposition.” The two have been firing verbal broadsides at each other since shortly after Moreno replaced Correa in Ecuador’s presidential palace last May. The comment, however, serves as a reminder of how...
A recent post on an expat social media forum suggested that if Ecuador’s Social Security system (IESS) follows through with its rate hike for voluntary membership there will be a mass exodus of norte americanos from the country. Well, it turns out that those leaving might fill up four or five rows on the first...
Three members of the Mexican Congress have an answer to U.S. President Donald Trump’s funding plan for his wall on the southern U.S. border. If Trump applies taxes to Mexican imports to the U.S. or to remittances sent home by Mexicans living in the U.S., the congressmen say they will introduce legislation to confiscate property...
The circumstances appear ideal for a conservative to win Ecuador’s presidency in 2017. The economy is in its second year of recession. Unemployment is up, as is the broader-reaching rate of under-employment. Support for President Rafael Correa has dropped below 40%, the lowest point of his 10-year administration. Complaints about government policies on taxation, mining,...
Commenting last week on Ecuador’s presidential campaign, one Quito journalist called it “colorless, odorless, and empty.” The reference was aimed mostly at front-runner and presumed heir apparent to President Rafael Correa, Lenin Moreno, and suggested that voters know little more about the candidate than they did when he left the vice presidency four years ago....
By Sylvan Hardy For tourists and foreign residents, today’s Christmas Eve’s Pase del Niño (the Passing of the Child) parade is a colorful and often bizarre mixture of the sacred and the profane. To locals, it’s a time-honored combination of Catholic and indigenous traditions that produces a festival of homage to the Christ child. For...
By Sylvan Hardy When the government paid a house call Thursday to Ecuador’s smartest 2016 high school graduate, it was more than simply a media event. Although newspaper and television reporters were on hand when René Ramírez, Ecuador’s Secretary of Higher Education, Science and Technology, dropped by the Cuenca apartment of Dianneris Diaz, his visit...
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