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Lunes, 5/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Horarios misas en la catedral (Times for mass in the cathedral) - Starting from 4/10, there will be new hours for mass in the New Cathedral. From lunes a jueves they will be at 7:00, 9:00, 12:00...
President Lenín Moreno announced Sunday that Ecuador will receive $7.15 billion during the next three months from five different international agencies. The money will be used to compensate laid-off workers, catch up salaries to government employees, pay contractors...
Although passenger numbers remain far below those at the beginning of the year, Juan Pablo Vega, director of Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport, says conditions are steadily improving. On Saturday, he announced that Colombia-based Avianca has agreed to begin flights to...
I arrived at Plazoleta Cruz Del Vado on a late afternoon last week in time to watch a flock of clouds winging west towards the sea; the evening sun pulling the blanket of sleep over the mountains. A few lights, some winking behind swaying trees, snuggled on the...
Although new Covid infections have reached a three-month low, Cuenca hospitals say they are running out of beds. According to the top administrator ta the Vicente Corral Moscoso public hospital, the number of patients with other diseases and victims of accidents has...
Editor's note: This is the first in a multi-part series examining how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy The Covid-19 virus has changed lives around the world. Besides infecting 35 million...
Jueves, 1/10/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Crédito para pagar deudas (Credit to pay debts) - See Wednesday's CHL story for the IMF loan to the country. Unificación de tarjetas Movilízate no será completa (Unification of Movilízate...
A 32-year-old man died shortly before noon Thursday when his motorcycle collided with a tram unit at the intersection of Mariscal Lamar and Juan Montalvo in the historic district. After reviewing tranvía and ECU-911 video of the accident, police said that the victim...
Miércoles, 30/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Dictan talleres gratuitos en MMAM (Free workshops at MMAM) - The Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno is again offering workshops in plastic arts and guitar for children from 7-12, teens from 13-17,...
Martes, 29/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Uso de internet (Internet use) - <I can hear you thinking, "I don't need anyone to teach me how to use the internet."> The Agencia de Regulación y Control de las Telecomunicaciones...
Latam airline said Tuesday that it is restoring air service from Santiago, Chile to Guayaquil, Bogotá, São Paulo, Brazil and Mexico City. The airline also said it is resuming flights between Ecuador, Peru and Colombia as well as in-country flights in Peru and...
Lunes, 28/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Un campeonato mundial dedicado para un "angel" (A dedicated world championship for an "angel") - Cuencano dancer José Antonio Romero won the Campeonato Mundial Virtual de Baile (Virtual World...
As many as a thousand Venezuelan children enrolled in Cuenca public schools struggle to keep up in online classes due to a lack of computers and internet access. “Many of the children are using cell phones to log into their sessions and this puts them at an extreme...
By Robert Bradley There are some who refer to Garry Vacher, founder, and director of Hogar de Esperanza, as a curmudgeon, or just a plain old sourpuss. His scrappiness is well known, his phenomenal contribution to the community less so. Numerous location changes have...
Police believe that the deaths of two North Americans found Friday night in their northside Cuenca apartment was probably the result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Police say the couple, along with their dog, appear to have been dead for about five days. Police were...
Jueves, 24/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - En el Complejo de Ingapirca volverán a recibir visitantes (The Ingapirca Complex will again receive visitors) - This coming sábado, Ingapirca will reopen with hours of 9:30-15:00 from viernes a...
Within a few scant weeks of setting my feet on Ecuadorian soil, the adventures of exploring the countryside were underway. There are many rocky paths in Ecuador that might be mistaken for roads. I seek these out as you never know what you may see in these out of the...
Miércoles, 23/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Consulta minera causa polémica (Mining referendum causes controversy) - According to the Comité Empresarial Ecuatoriano, a business group, the resolution from the Corte Constitucional which...
Martes, 22/9/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Aumentan contagios (Infections increase) - During the past semana, Cuenca exceeded the hurdle of 800 new infections in 7 days which was last exceeded at the end of agosto. The increase...
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court has given Cuenca the green light to hold a public referendum that could ban large and medium-scale mining activity near water sources. The Monday decision was denounced by the country's Chamber of Mining, which claims a local ban would...
