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For the first time in five months, workers are returning to tranvía construction sites near Civic Plaza in the historic district. Director of project contractor ACTN, Mónica Quezada, says that work to connect train tracks and repair streets and sidewalks between...
Cuenca’s rivers are running at near-record lows and the city utility office says that water rationing is possible if levels don’t rise soon. On Monday, the Tomebamba and Yanuncay rivers, the largest of the five rivers that supply Cuenca’s municipal water supply, were...
By John Keeble Sustainable Cuenca, a new expat organisation aimed at alleviating poverty, has launched two projects and is planning a third. The volunteers, working under the banner of Foundation Avanzar, are helping women in Ricaurte earn a living from making onion...
By Liam Higgins According to Ecuador’s customs service, the value of imported liquor has doubled in 2017 over 2016 with December figures yet to be counted. For European liquor, the increase is more than 400%, year over year. The reason for the increase is no surprise,...
Saturday’s traditional exchange of godfather duties for Cuenca’s El Niño, the 200-year-old statue of the Christ child, marked the final preparation for today’s Christmas Eve parade. In the ceremony at the cathedral Saturday night, the Third (Tarqui) Army Division...
Cuenca’s transportation authorities have a warning for holiday party goers: If you’re caught driving drunk you go to jail. Last weekend, 48 drivers were sent to the city’s driving jail, more than double the number of a typical weekend. “Just because it’s Christmas...
Employees of the French project management consortium ACTN showed up for work at several locations on Cuenca’s tram route Monday morning. For residents in those areas, it was a welcome sight. “Glory be to God,” said Manuel Cárdenas, a store owner on Av. Las Americas...
The Vatican Museum has returned a shrunken head to Ecuador, relinquishing the wizened cranium of an Amazon warrior nearly 100 years after it was taken by a missionary. The boneless head — which belonged to an unlucky member of a Shuar indigenous community — was handed...
Well, what can I say? Today was a big day for us. Joining up with CuencaHighLife is possibly the biggest thing we have done since we launched this little newspaper almost a year and a half ago.
I first became acquainted with Pedro Espinosa’s work as I was coming back from a weekend in the country with some Ecuadorian friends. We were passing through San Joaquin on our way back to Cuenca when a hillside house caught my eye. I wondered who in Ecuador designed...
The Cuenca mayor’s office confirmed Friday that work on the long-delayed tranvía project will resume Monday morning. Except for minor work carried out by city crews in the historical district, the project has been stalled since October 2016 when Spanish project...
The Cuenca Dispatch newspaper and the CuencaHighLife website have merged under a new company, Ecuador Media Marketing Services, Cia. Ltda. Partners in the new business are Michael Soares, founder of The Cuenca Dispatch, and David Morrill and Jonathan Mogrovejo...
Jueves, 14/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda event cancelled and rescheduled - La Noche de Ópera - The Opera Night scheduled for Thurs., "La Guarida", has been cancelled and rescheduled for 15/1/2018. Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Magazine...
A U.S. expat arrested in September on charges that he drugged and kidnapped two Colombian prostitutes has been found innocent and released from prison. Thirty-three-year-old Jon Poland, identified as Jhonathan Matthew P. by National Police at the time of his arrest,...
Miércoles, 13/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Teatro - "Lluvia" will play from hoy until el viernes a las 20:00 in the sala "Alfonso Carrasco". The play is a fusion of works by Tennessee Williams and Uruguayo Ecuardo Galeano. Concierto...
The new Parque de la Libertad, on the north side of the historic district, will open at the end of February, Cuenca planning director Pablo Abad said on Monday. “We are completing the planting of the green areas and construction of sidewalks,” he said. “We are also...
Martes, 12/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Ffilme - "Dunkirk," directed by Christopher Nolan was shown Tues. in "La Guarida" Centro Cultur cal (Mariscal la Mar y Luis Pauta (Convención del 45). <Were the Saturday matinees when I was...
By Sylvan Hardy When Diego Mejía describes good coffee, his metaphors turn to fruits, flowers and spices. “Can you taste the wild rose?” he asks a friend sampling the espresso he just served. “Maybe there’s a hint of cinnamon as well, no?” Mejía, who was named...
Domingo, 10/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Taller - There will be a workshop on community museums and social management el próximo martes a las 14:00 in the Museo Pumapungo, arranged by the museum, the Ministry of Culture...
Author's note: This is the second of two articles. Part 1 recounts Newbie surprises when my wife Deborah and I first moved to Cuenca in 2010. Part 2 enumerates Good, Bad and Ugly surprises experienced since then. Bear in mind, all you Cuenca Old Timers, Newbies and...
