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By Liam Higgins Ecuadorians living on the country's north coast were reminded once again last week that they live in the seismically active zone known as the "ring of fire" that encircles the Pacific Ocean. Over an eight-day period, more than 100 earthquakes were...
Lunes, 18/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada Otras cosas - Titular - Semana inicia con mira en vacunación (Week starts with a view to vaccination) - The first 15,000 doses of Covid vaccines will arrive in the country this week and vaccinations will start. Similar...
2020 was devastating for Cuenca businesses and although there is cautious optimism for 2021, owners and managers say significant recovery depends on the pandemic. “In September and October last year, we had good feelings for 2021 but some of those have faded,” says...
Sábado, 16/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Vanegas y Hermida a II vuelta (2nd round for Vanegas y Hermida) - Elections for rector of the U. of Cuenca will go to a 2nd round of voting between Pablo Vanegas and María Augusta Hermida on...
History clearly documents that hysterical diatribe and Frankenstein mobs hoisting flag-draped pitchforks are not essential elements for improving society. It does, however, recount the litany of tragedies triggered by frenzied scrum intent on violent change. Consider...
Norway has expressed increasing concern about the safety of the Pfizer Inc. vaccine on elderly people. especially those with serious underlying health conditions, after raising their estimate of the number who died after receiving inoculations to 29. The latest figure...
Viernes,15/1/2021 Hello everyone - Activities - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Piden restablecer línea 100 de buses (Request to restore bus line 100) - 1,000 residents of Baños and Ricaurte answered a survey given to bus and tranvía riders. They want the 100 buses...
Jueves, 14/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - La gente 'busca' al virus (People 'search' for the virus) - Returning to the "semáforo rojo" (red stoplight - your phrase for the day in case you've forgotten or recently arrived in Ecuador)...
Miércoles, 13/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Looks like 2021 is going to be just as crappy as 2020. I lost internet service on Monday <and no, it wasn't an unpaid bill>, called the provider, and the technicians came today. Now I have a new router to go with the new hard...
Authors note: I wrote this piece about five years ago after having arrived in Ecuador only a few weeks earlier. I’ve learned a lot about the folks here since then and a quite a bit more Spanish also! The shop is still there and the same artisan is still tapping that...
Five people were killed and another four were injured Tuesday night in an accident near Latacunga involving a Cuenca-based van. Police report that the passenger van collided head-on with a dump truck and that the truck driver had been drinking. Following the initial...
Domingo, 10/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Impulsan turismo rural (Promotion of rural tourism) - The tourism sector has not recovered due to the pandemic, and one alternative is to develop rural tourism which avoids crowding. One...
Sábado, 9/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Teatro - The Teatro Infinito-Salamandra will present a dramatic work, "Chinaku, el viaje hacia la liberación," el próximo 14/1 a las 19:00 in the República Sur and el 16/1 a las 19:00 in el Prohibido...
I’ve spun so many yarns about Cuenca to friends over the years that the tales are now woven together like an old sweater fitted by repetition and patches of lint like woolly lichen. Considering all of the changes we have been through of late, it seemed like a good...
Viernes, 8/1/2020 Hola, Todos - My apologies for the long break from these Periodicos. 2020 ended badly with problems in getting emails, a kidney stone that was finally surgically removed 9 days after the first symptoms appeared, and then the computer not connecting...
Editor's note: This is the second on a series of articles on craft beer micro and nanobreweries of Cuenca. To read the first one about the Hop Factory, click here. By Stephen Vargha It was not that long ago that Cuenca was a desert for lovers of craft beer. That has...
Ecuador’s overall crime rate dropped 31 percent in 2020 compared to 2019, despite increases in Guayaquil and Quito. In its annual report on crime, the National Police noted that curfews and other restrictions related to the coronavirus pandemic were largely...
The World Bank predicts that Ecuador's economy will grow by 3.5 percent in 2021. The expected growth follows a 9.5 percent GDP plunge in 2020. The Bank says it expects all South American economies to grow in 2021 but calls the long-term outlook “guarded" due to the...
Following Saturday’s Constitutional Court decision ending the state of emergency, the Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee issued a statement Monday clarifying the health restrictions that remain in force. The COE said it is in discussions with the national...
A friend of mine got a tattoo the other day. The last few months have been wearying and she needed a talisman to give her strength, an indelible guide leading her out of the cruel cyclone that has caused so many to lose their way and become disoriented. She was...
