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The city of Cuenca and public bus owners have agreed to use the same Mobilize transit card for both the tram and buses. The agreement paves the way for full integration of the two systems, with buses providing a “feeder” service for the train. “This is an important...
Jueves, 23/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Ética y confianza, mensaje de Muñoz (Ethics and trust, message from Muñoz) - María Alejandra Muñoz was sworn in as Vice President yesterday. She was sworn in with only 30 people in attendance...
Miércoles, 22/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Integración no se ata a voluntades (Integration is not tied to wills) - The city debates how the Tranvía and buses will be integrated today. This weekend, after a 60 day test, the Tranvía...
Martes, 21/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Colapsa vía a Mazar (Road to Mazar collapses) - A stretch of the via Matrama-Mazar at the San Pedro community in the Pindilig parish in Azogues collapsed last sábado, leaving 3 houses at risk....
Within a matter of days, it appears that Quito will pass Guayaquil in total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases. On Monday, Quito registered 10,599 cases while the Guayaquil total stood at 11,640. From the end of April to July 20, Health Minister Juan Carlos Zevallos...
Lunes, 20/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - From el periodico del sábado - Drive in theater - The parking lot of the Hotel Oro Verde will become a drive in theater el próximo 31/7. The hotel joined with a company that provided technical...
The commercial operation of the Cuenca tramway begins next week without a payment system that integrates it with the city's bus system. Officials say the lack of a unified system is the result of a disagreement between bus owners and the city about how to collect...
By Miriam Drake When you are not feeling well and need medical attention in Ecuador, it’s probably not the best time to learn how to use IESS or the private healthcare systems here. There are good doctors in the IESS system, but you need to know who they are and how...
The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee voted to keep the city under yellow light restrictions as several members lashed out at the federal government for not allowing a tightening of the rules to combat an increase of Covid-19 cases. "We will push our case more...
Jueves, 16/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Making bricks out of plastic - For 2 years, a group of students and their professor at the Universidad Católica de Cuenca have been working on a project to convert plastic bottles into bricks. First...
By Alice Chaummers Is this weird or what? The pandemia thing, I mean. What’s so lousy about it is that it’s gone on for so long and there’s no end in sight. We’re used to disasters, natural and man-made, that have some sort of sequence -- like a beginning, a middle...
Following the government’s decision Thursday morning denying Cuenca’s request to extend the nightly curfew and restrict alcohol sales and the size of public gatherings, Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios and Azuay Province Governor Xavier Martinez said the city may return to...
City and health officials in Cuenca and Quito blasted the national government on Wednesday for not allowing an extended nighttime curfew and a ban on the sale of alcohol. “We have been waiting for almost two weeks for the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE)...
Miércoles, 15/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cultural spaces slowly reopening - At first, the Ministerio de Cultura published a guide for people in cultural activities to work in spaces without the public. Later a protocol for reopening...
Eggs are a dietary staple in Ecuador. They provide a simple, nourishing, inexpensive, tasty morsel all in its own neat little package, albeit fragile. And, conveniently, they are found everywhere. Edie’s favorite, as well as mine, is the quail egg. Their cream colored...
Claiming that the coronavirus health emergency has reached "critical proportions," the Quito Emergency Operations Committee is asking the government to allow it to exend the nightly curfew, ban alcohol sales and impose new restrictions on the use of private vehicles....
Martes, 14/7/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - 138 años tiene primera biblioteca (first library is 138 years old) - The article is part of the bicentenial observation. The first public library in Azuay was started 59 years after Cuenca declared...
Lunes, 13/7/2020 Hola, Todos - For whoever wanted links to the articles - sorry, but no can do. I work off a real newspaper. One you can wrap the garbage in after you're done with it. You can get your own subscription, delivered to your house or into your mora bush,...
Editor's note: This the second in a series, Medical Emergencies and End of Life in Cuenca. To read part 1, click here. By Miriam Drake As the caregiver for my stroke surviving husband, I learned as we went along how things work or don’t in Cuenca. Here are a few good...
The Cuenca Emergency Operations Committee decided Friday to maintain the city's yellow light health emergency status. The COE said it remained "extremely concerned" about the health care system's ability to handle Covid-19 cases but said the addition of extra...
