Cuenca News
Bored? – (De El Mercurio del lunes 6/4) Arte religioso y exposiciones en la apertura de las fiestas (Religious art and exhibitions at the opening of the festivities) – There […]
In conversations with some expats who have been in Cuenca for a while, a quiet pattern begins to show up. It does not arrive all at once, and it is […]
Neighborhoods in Quito and Guayaquil suffered electric blackouts of two to four hours over the Easter weekend. The National Electricity Corporation (Cnel) posted messages on X shortly before most outages […]
Bored? (De El Mercurio del viernes, 3/4) Escuela presenta proyecto “Constelaciones estelares” (School Presents “Star Constellations” Project) – The Unidad Educativa Eugenio Espejo will present its multidisciplinary stage project “Constelaciones […]
The water levels at the Mazar reservoir and Rio Coca, the sources that power the country’s two largest electric generation plants, is dropping rapidly. On Thursday, Ecuador’s Electric Corporation (Celec) […]
The Internal Revenue Service (SRI) has ordered retail outlets to begin charging the 15% value added tax on dozens of previously untaxed food items, including bread and most dairy products. […]
The Cuenca-Molleturo-Guayaquil and Cuenca-Girón-Machala highways will soon become toll roads, President Daniel Noboa announced Wednesday. Plagued for years by landslides and sinkholes, both highways have suffered frequent closures, especially during […]
You don’t notice these rules at first. Most people don’t even realize they exist. Life feels easy enough. The cafés are welcoming. The routines settle in. The city seems open. […]
Bored? (De El Mercurio del martes, 31/3) En muestra pictórica se resalta rostros y paisajes (Art exhibition highlights faces and landscapes) – The exhibit, “Rostros, Naturaleza, Rincones: Ecuador en acuarela” […]
Bored? – (De El Mercurio del sábado, 28/3) Semana de retiro de cuaresma (Lenten Retreat Week) – <Pardon me for using a translation program, but I have no idea how […]
The first time I saw “Gringolandia” listed as a neighborhood in Cuenca, I assumed I had missed a municipal announcement. Perhaps the city council had quietly created a new parish, […]
Editor’s note: Cuenca’s Easter soup, fanesca, is considered by many to be the best in Latin America and it is a tradition among Cuencanos to have at least one bowl […]
Bored? – (De El Mercurio del viernes, 27/3) – Alistan la ruta de la fanesca (Preparing the Fanesca Route) – The mercados of Cuenca will star in the III Festival […]
Some of the most interesting restaurants begin with a question rather than a business plan. For Paula, who is from Cuenca, and Wilmo, originally from Loja, that question appeared during […]
Bored? – (De El Mercurio de miércoles, 25/3) Agenda – jueves, 26/3, 19:00 – Opening of photo exhibit – Hiperseries by Fernando Piedra – Sala Proceso (Luis Cordero y Pres. […]
Although she denies recent electric blackouts are the beginning of a new power crisis, Energy Minister Inés Manzano admits that the country’s electrical generation system is “experiencing a major deficit […]
By Christopher Lux Every egg I’ve eaten in Cuenca has been delicious. When I need eggs I walk to the end of the street to the tienda. The owner, Dianita, […]
For a while, living abroad explains everything. It explains why daily routines feel unfamiliar. It explains why small successes feel meaningful. It explains why so much attention goes into ordinary […]
Curious? – (De El Mercurio del viernes, 20/3) Cenace alerta “déficit” de energía (Cenace warns of energy shortage) – El Operador Nacional de Electricidad (Cenace) asked private businesses on the […]
By Elisabet Juan Roca The agave plant is mostly associated with the arid landscape of Jalisco, Mexico, and with its most famous beverage: tequila. But not many people know that […]





















