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By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi If you need to get to Quito and Guayaquil in hurry and prefer not to fly on the scheduled commercial airlines, you now have an option. The director of the Cuenca airport corporation, Carlos Jacome, has announced that private...
Jueves, 4/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Exhibición - "Ucuyayas: Esculturas sagradas de los Yachay de Narrío" (Ucuyayas: Sacred sculptures of the Yachay de Narrío) by Riardo Montesinos is showing in the Salón del Pueblo of...
Miércoles, 3/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Last class - The last class in the Danza Contacto (Contact Dance) workshop in the "Rizoma Plataforma Disidente" in the CCE, will be el sábado a las 14:00. Taller de teatro - There...
Martes, 2/1/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Exposición - Noé Mayorga is exhibiting Legos sculptures hasta febrero próximo <You should remember this from before vacation.> in a space at the Casa Bienal. <You should...
Although many historic district streets were quiet at 11 last night, that changed in a hurry as the clock ticked toward midnight. As 2017 gave way to 2018, thousands gathered around burning piles of año viejo dummies while others fired off fireworks. A few revelers...
Hydrologists at ETAPA, Cuenca’s public utility company, say the city’s reservoirs are filling up, thanks to recent rainfall. On Monday, ETAPA issued a statement advising water customers to cut back on usage, warning that restrictions could be imposed due to low levels...
Mayor Marcelo Cabrera announced Thursday that bars in Cuenca will be allowed to remain open until 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day and until 3 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. “We want people to have a good time over the holidays but we remind them that they should act...
Hundreds of protesters demanding an increase in city bus fares closed streets around Parque Calderon on Thursday. Organized by the Cuenca Chamber of Transportation, marchers carried signs attacking the municipal council for delaying a decision on the type of new buses...
So who’s being incinerated on New Year’s Eve? Every year, this is the burning question in Ecuador, one that says a lot about the political mood of the country. An informal survey of vendors of New Year’s monigotes, or dummies, shows the favorite targets of 2017 are...
Angered at the delay in the implementation of a fare increase, representatives of the Cuenca bus companies that provide municipal service say they will mount protests in several locations and are considering a work stoppage. According to the companies, represented by...
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...
