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Miércoles, 11/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - "El Tejido" - "The Tissue" or "The Weaving" is a new cultural space at calle Baltazara de Calderón 2-19 y Miguel Vélez and is part of the San Sebastián cultural circuit. In addition to presenting...
Miércoles, 10/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Muestra - "La otredad del espacio" (The otherness of space) was opened at the Casa de Chaguarchimbana, and is a show of works by the students from the Eugenio Espejo school. Otras cosas - Titular...
"The people are telling us that many of the public spaces in Cuenca are drab and gray and need some greenery,” says Dora Ordóñez, director of the Municipal Cleaning Company of Cuenca (EMAC). “Our answer is, 'we hear you,' and are planning a landscaping program to...
Lunes, 9/2/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Cooperativa Artesanal - A group of artisans that has been exhibiting their work in the Galerías de Oficios in the CCE are moving into a new space on Pres. Córdova y Luis Cordero starting el 12 de...
By Brenda Langdon A friend asked me last week what measures one can take to lower exposure and prepare for coronavirus. It appears likely to me that we are in the early stages of a pandemic, and there are many variables at play. There is actually very little...
Although the regional director of the Ministry of Health says there are no cases of coronavirus cases in Cuenca, local physicians are less optimistic. Announcing another negative test result on Friday, David Ordonez, Zone 6 Ministry of Health director, said he felt...
Cuenca city government says that almost all the damage caused during the October 2019 protests has been repaired. On Wednesday, repairs were finished in two areas of San Francisco square where rocks had been removed by protesters. On Thursday, city workers finished...
Viernes, 6/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Roto Fest finals - 8 alternative rock bands will play in a concert este sábado a las 15:00 in the Casa del Artista (av. Loja next to the Yanuncay bridge) to select which 4 will be in the Roto Fest...
Jueves, 5/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - A photography exhibit at the Alianza Francesa (Tadeo Torres y Solano) opened tonight. French war photographer José Nicholas is showing his work from wars in Afganistán, Bosnia, Somalia,...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) to leads all other causes of American deaths daily, at least 2,200 each day. For reasons not yet understood, women fare much worse than men do after suffering a heart...
The World Health Organization is urging Latin American countries to develop regional plans to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. “To date, the region has far fewer known cases of the virus than other areas of the world, including North America, and a...
Miércoles, 4/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Concierto - Composer Luis Chiriboga Tamayo will present a concert with 14 short pieces for piano, violin and cello este jueves a las 20:00 in the Museo de Arte Moderno. Concierto - Two Czech...
Reading yesterday's post in CuencaHighLife in which Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch advises that 40% to 70% of the world's population will contract the coronavirus confirmed my initial suspicion. I had the sense with the early reports that the media was...
The private companies that operate Cuenca’s public bus system are angry that they were not part of the decision that set tram fares on Monday. The problem was that bus owners boycotted the municipal council meeting where the fares where established. “There was chair...
Martes, 3/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival del Sombrero de Toquilla - "La mujer y la libertad" is the name of the "Panama" hat festival este viernes, 6/3, sábado, 7/3, and domingo 8/3 in the Catedral Vieja and organized by the...
After more than two years of false starts, Cuenca’s municipal council has finally established the fare for the city tram system. It will be 35 cents. Following the rejection of a proposal for a 30 cent fare -- to match that of city buses – the council voted 11 to six...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Health says efforts are almost complete to make Cuenca one of three centers for combating the developing Covid-19 coronavirus in Ecuador. “After Quito and Guayaquil, Cuenca will be the third headquarters for fighting the virus,” says Leopoldo...
Just 10 days ago, Cuenca’s four rivers were flowing at near-record lows. “On most years, the rainy season begins in early February,” says meteorologist Franklin Vera. “I’ve been asking, when is it going to start?” He got his answer Sunday and since then heavy rain has...
By Pauline McKean “I’ve seen how in every person, every human being, a calling to care for the Earth occurs when, privately, their being tells them ‘this you must do,'" says José Morquecho. When José made his observation, he was busy planting trees during a...
Cuenca prosecutors are rejecting a claim by prison administrators that the death of six inmates last week at the Turi correctional facility was a mass suicide. “Given the fact that the victims were in different areas of the prison and unable to communicate with each...
