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According to area residents, Cuenca’s IctoCruz megapark is in urgent need of maintenance. Opened in March 2019, the 56 hectare park is the largest of the city’s four megaparks, offering a variety of recreational features including bike paths, mountain biking tracks,...
My long-ago girlfriend, Sherry, finally won me over. I remember distant times when I could hardly wait for her to get home so I could re-play the latest singer-songwriter composition I heard that moved me nearly to tears. She was always patient, and always sweet....
Editor’s note: This is the third in an ongoing series that examines how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy Jeff and Joe Fithian are “freshies": twin brothers who moved to Cuenca less than a...
Viernes, 30/10/2020 - Hola, Todos - Agenda - Martes, 3 de noviembre: 8:00 - Te Deum - Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción. 9:30 - Entrega de ofrendas en conmemoración al Bicentenario de Independencia de Cuenca (Delivery of offerings in commemoration of the...
Jueves, 29/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Ecuagenera se reactiva con el OrchidFest 2020 (Ecuagenera reactivates with OrchidFest 2020) - Ecuagenera reopened el 24/10 with OrchidFest 2020 which will run until el 3/11. The show has over...
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi A couple of weeks ago, I received a message from Abby Osman, a retired counselor and educator now living in Cuenca. "Were you contacted to donate blood for a man who is at Hospital Del Rio?" I immediately checked my email and, in...
By Robert Bradley It was clear from childhood: J.T Neira needed a bigger piece of the sky. It surely wasn’t that he did not enjoy his hometown of Cuenca, but he knew there was a whole world to see, and he wanted to be part of it. And so, at an early age, Neira took a...
Miércoles, 28/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Escenarios del Mundo comienza hoy (Stages of the World starts today) - The theater arts festival starts today and ends el 15 de noviembre. This year there will be 10 in-person presentations...
By Stephen Vargha The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca (Cuenca Symphony Orchestra) has an ambitious schedule for the remainder of the year, and they want everyone to know what is new for all to enjoy. Their concerts have something for people with all sorts of tastes. The...
By Lenny Charnoff The other day a long time customer said that “Cuenca Salmon reminds me of Trader Joe’s in the United States”. I said, “Thank you, for the compliment. I appreciate the positive comparison. Can you tell me why?” “Here’s why,” she answered. “With points...
Martes, 27/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Homenaje literario (Literary tribute) - The Centro PEN in Ecuador organized about 2 years ago with writers, poets, journalists, and defenders of freedom of expression joining to talk, debate and...
Ayni -- the Quechuan word for “reciprocity, or, working together" -- is the name of a new Cuenca artisan cooperative which hosts its grand opening beginning at 10 a.m. on Thursday, October 29. The gallery, located on the ground floor of the Casa de la Cultura, Luis...
Lunes, 26/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Crecen cifras de pobreza extrema (Extreme poverty figures grow) - By the end of the year in Ecuador, 1.4 million people will pass into extreme poverty, another 1.8 million into poverty, and 1.1...
Carolina Ormaza, director of Cuenca’s tranvía, is breathing easier these days. “When the system began commercial operation September 22, we were only carrying 6,000 passengers a day and I was getting calls and emails asking if it was a failure, even suggesting it...
Perhaps I did not understand the remark correctly. He said, “I am moving away from Cuenca because the weather here is ‘getting old’.” I wondered what he meant but readily agreed that the mysteries of weather is as old as when unseen clouds drifted over an unpeopled...
For the first time in almost 60 years, there will be no Christmas Eve Pase del Niño parade in Cuenca this year. The city’s biggest celebration of the year, the parade attracts between 150,000 and 200,000 participants and spectators. Cuenca’s Emergency Operations...
Viernes, 23/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Agenda - October 24 (Note: all in-person events have limited capacity) 8:00 - Rutas de la sabiduría: Caminata al cerro Monjas (Paths of Wisdom: Hike to Cerro Monjas - register at dascaribay@cuenca.gob.ec. 10-16:00 -...
Jueves, 22/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 128 actos en agenda del Bicentenario (128 events on the Bicentennial agenda) - Mayor Palacios presented the agenda for the 200th anniversary of independence yesterday. There are 128 events, over 50...
Interior Minister María Paula Romo says that police will “take whatever measures necessary” to keep today’s national protests peaceful. “We have received reports that outside actors intent on creating violence will infiltrate today’s marches,” she said. “We are on...
Miércoles, 21/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Aglomeraciones aumentan riesgo (Crowds increase risk) - ECU-911 alerted Cuencanos that the city is returning to having a high number of large gatherings which increases the risk of a new...
