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The public company that provides drinking water to Cuenca announced Saturday that it has instituted scheduled water cut-offs in Ricaurte and Sayausí as a result of ongoing drought conditions. Director of the company’s drinking water division, Fabián Cazar, said...
Unlike news reporting, where timeliness and deadlines prevail, composing a weekly column requires diligent patience. Folks often offer vignettes, eager for me to quickly pluck and dissect the highlights into a story, but a written commentary is not something that can...
Ecuadorians who took advantage of a law that suspended payments for a variety of debts and services for six-month are now required to pay up. Provisions of the Humanitarian Law, passed in April, that allowed deferral of rent, utilities, mortgages and other debts,...
By Vincent Ricci A historic court ruling in Ecuador that will let a community vote on whether to allow mining in its midst could set the stage for a region-wide grassroots pushback against extractive projects. Pedro Palacios, the mayor of Cuenca, had submitted the...
Jueves, 12/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Develan rostro de mujer que vivió hace 500 años en Pumapungo (Face of a woman who lived 500 years ago in Pumapungo unveiled) - In the 1980's, archeologist Jaime Idrovo found the body of a woman in...
By Stephen Vargha One of Cuenca’s international stars is helping to honor the city’s independence from the Spanish 200 years ago. Forty-year-old Sandra Argudo is giving back to her hometown with a special performance. The soprano and mariachi singer along with tenor...
Miércoles, 11/11/2020 Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 200 monedas recordarán el bicentenario de Cuenca (200 coins will commemorate the bicentennial of Cuenca) - The Asociación de Numismáticos del Azuay has designed a coin to celebrate Cuenca's Independence. The...
Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Arte resurge como ave fénix (Art resurfaces like a phoenix) - In spite of closures of galleries during the pandemic, other artists are opening spaces in Cuenca. Painter Olmedo Quimbita opened a...
Lunes, 9/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Novela aborda drama de la pedofilia (Novel tackles pedophilia drama) - The novel "El Rostro" by Ernesto Arias tackles pedofilia in the Catholic clergy. It will be launched as part of the Encuentro...
After months of registering in the “excellent” and “good” categories, Cuenca’s air quality has been in the “unhealthy” range since Sunday morning. The regional Risk Management Service says the culprit is “a large load” of fine particulates, which it blames on...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an ongoing series that looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy A 35-year resident of Cuenca, Karen Kennedy personifies the heroic adventurer who...
The restaurant business is a difficult undertaking no matter how you slice it. For the patrons, it is only after the rent, utilities and credit card bills are paid, as well as the other myriad expenses of daily life are set to rest, that they decide it is time to...
Responding to criticism of advertising affixed to several of the Cuenca’s tram units, city officials say the commercial signage is a way to offset operational costs of the system. “It’s a valuable source of revenue that we cannot afford to pass up,” says tram director...
Viernes, 6/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Publicación destaca rol de mujeres "heroicas" (Book highlights roll of "heroic" women <Or, to be politically correct, "sheroic" women>) - Kynku has published "100 mujeres de nuestra historia,...
Jueves, 5/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - No hay nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Azogues festeja sola sus 200 años (Azogues celebrates its 200 years alone) - 3 ceremonial events for the Bicentennial of Azogues were held with the vice mayor presiding. The mayor is in...
Miércoles, 4/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada, nada, nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Alcalde ofrece alta inversión (Mayor offers large investment) - At the Sesión Solemne yesterday, Mayor Pedro Palacios announced an investment of $200,000,000 in public works to...
Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Horarios especiales en museos (Special hours at museums) - Starting today, the Sistema Municipal de Museos has special hours for the fiestas de Cuenca from 9:00 to 17:00. Enjoy special exhibits and...
By Karla Sánchez Arismendi For the past two years, Joel Munn, a retired ski instructor from Breckenridge, Colorado, has been working non-stop to make a difference in the lives of the poor people on the streets of Cuenca and surrounding communities. He is the founder...
Dry weather and careless agricultural land-clearing are responsible for more than a dozen wildfires in rural areas near Cuenca, the fire department says. Some of the largest fires continued to burn Monday near Turi, San Joaquin, Zona Soldados and in the upper basin of...
Lunes, 2/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Parque se deteriora (Park deteriorates) - See Monday's CHL article for story. El Día de los Difuntos con pocas visitas al cementerio (All Souls' Day with few visits to the cemetery) - Restrictions on...
