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Although a new ordinance mandates that all LP gas delivery trucks operating in Cuenca use music instead of beeps to alert customers, the city says 40% of trucks have not made the change. The ordinance went into effect August 1. Carlos Orellana, chair of the...
A confidentiality clause in the project management contract to finish work on Cuenca’s tram system has delayed announcement of the winning bidder. Several city council members objected to the clause and said that all information relating to the contract should be...
Transit police are reporting a rash of accidents on the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway in the Cajas Mountains due to icy conditions. A large truck was totaled Tuesday night when it overturned on a curve near Migüir while police say more than two dozen other vehicles spun...
Cuenca is the first city in Ecuador, and only the third in Latin America, to produce more than a megawatt of electricity using methane gas generated from garbage. The bioenergy generation plant, located at the city’s waste disposal facility in Santa Ana, provides...
Editor’s note: This is the third of an eight-part series by writer / photographer Brian Buckner about hiking in the Cuenca area. To read the first and second installments, click here and here. By Brian Buckner Just a few miles west of Cuenca is the Caja’s National...
The construction consortium chosen last week by the city will begin to clear San Francisco Plaza today in preparation of reconstructing the 400-year-old public square. During the past two weeks, the city bulldozed the most of the old structures on the plaza. Delayed...
Text by Roz Reymers; Photos by John Keeble Despite the cold morning, twenty-seven expats turned out Saturday in San Joaquin for a Walk/Hike/Run to raise money for Antony Zapata, a 15-year-old from Cañar province who lost his leg last year in a motorcycle accident....
Photos and text by John Keeble It’s tough getting old. You kind of split in two… your mind sees the world with the adventurous I can do anything optimism of your twenties and your body says: “Yeah, well, I’ll try.” Just as bad, you look out at someone as a 25-year-old...
Cuenca’s Marsical La Mar Airport authority announced Saturday that Tame Airlines will resume Cuenca to Guayaquil service on Monday with an afternoon flight. The government-owned airlines suspended flights in April, saying that low passenger demand made the route...
Transit police placed warning signs at several locations on the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway in the Cajas mountains Saturday, as snow and ice slowed traffic. They said the warnings will remain in place in coming days due to cold temperatures. Although snowfall near the...
Editor's note: This is the second of an eight-part series by writer / photographer Brian Buckner about hiking in the Cuenca area. To read the first installment, click here. By Brian Buckner I define rural hiking as walking in areas outside the city proper but the...
Martin Smetáček, managing partner of Czech Brewery Pivovar C.Ltda., says choosing Ecuador to build a Czech brewing made good business sense. “There’s very little competition here and we don’t expect any to show up,” he says, explaining that the difficulty of doing...
Jueves, 27/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Thursday agenda event - Meeting - There was a meeting this morning in the Casa de Chaguarchimbana with the neighbors and "frentistas" (people with homes and/or businesses fronting the street) (ista - your suffix for...
Representatives from the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) took a tour of Cuenca’s tanvía project Tuesday and are considering providing financial support. One of UNOPS’s objectives is to identify infrastructure projects in developing countries that...
By John Keeble Cuenca’s expat community, perhaps the world’s first to be built primarily by the Internet, has come of age — it has grown and changed from a few hundred adventurer-expats in the pre-boom years to a large population enjoying a retired lifestyle of good...
Miércoles, 26/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Ciclo de Cine - The film series sponsored by the Cine Club Catarsis will close with "Irreversible," Thurs. a las 19:00 in the Mjuseo Pumapungo. Free. Danza - The Universidad...
Twenty-one years ago today, more than half of all Ecuadorians were in front of their televisions cheering on Cuenca’s Jefferson Perez when he crossed the finish line in Atlanta, winning the 20-kilometer Olympic race walk. His Olympic gold medal is the only one ever...
Martes, 25/7/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - Pictorial Show - "La Gravedad siempre gana" (Gravity always wins) <My butt will attest to the truth of that.> by Gabriel Zamora will open on jueves a las 19:00 in the Museo Municipal de...
Editor's note: This is the first of an eight-part series by writer / photographer Brian Buckner about hiking in the Cuenca area. The series covers urban hiking, rural hiking, hiking in the Cajas Mountains, people you meet along the trail, transportation options, what...
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series about long-time Cuenca expats and the changes they have seen over the years. By John Keeble What was Cuenca like before the gringo invasion? Frank Illing, owner of Wunderbar and Café Austria, can be considered an...
