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Perhaps my greatest luxury was packing a camera. I had long admired photography as both an intimate artform and one with a lasting impression, yet I never indulged in the practice until I moved to Cuenca in 2016. I was as relieved to be moving to Ecuador as I was to...
Editor's note: Englishman Alan Alexander Milne was born on January 18, 1882. Better known by his initials "A.A.", Milne gained fame for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for several volumes of children's poetry. Here, Cuenca expat and New...
Jueves, 17/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Sequestro y violación en Narancay (Kidnapping and rape in Narancay) - An atrocious case of rape has upset the city of Cuenca. A mother who was with her 2-year-old daughter went to a tienda in the Narancay Bajo...
By Garry Vatcher When we think of charity, most of us imagine doing good deeds. People donate money, volunteers give their time, and kind acts are carried out. However, based on my life experiences, I believe charity goes beyond just doing good things — it’s about...
Thousands of electric generators are piled on Guayaquil docks and in warehouses, many of them unclaimed, according to business organizations. “There could be 20,000 there, some of them already paid for, but no one wants them,” says Fabricio Cornejo, spokesman for the...
President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday that his government is committed to repairing and strengthening the country’s electric energy system. “What we inherited was a system in shambles and today, plans are progressing rapidly to put it back in order,” Noboa said in a...
By Florantonia Singer On the first day of his third term, Nicolás Maduro has warned that he is preparing an armed offensive with Cuba and Nicaragua in response to alleged foreign interventions. “We are preparing ourselves together with Cuba and Nicaragua and together...
Martes, 14/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Regresa monólogo "El Amado Inmóvil" (Return of the monologue “The Immovable Beloved") - Juana Estrella returns with her detective monologue on los 15, 16, & 17/1 a las 20:00 in the Sala Alfonso Carrasco in the Casa de...
The leading presidential candidates, President Daniel Noboa and Citizens Revolution’s Luisa González, will not share the same stage during Sunday’s presidential debate. Because of the large number of candidates, 16, the debate has been divided into two sessions with...
Ecuador’s Mining Ministry is accusing anti-mining protesters of disrupting negotiations for a large-scale gold and silver mine in Azuay Province. The ministry claims a small group of activists is preventing the ministry and officials from Dundee Precious Metals from...
A Constitutional Court panel has unanimously dismissed a legal challenge to President Daniel Noboa for non-compliance with Article 93 of the constitution which requires candidates for reelection to take a leave of absence during election campaigns. In its Saturday...
Domingo,12/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Muestra en el MMAM (Exhibit at the MMAM) - The Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno (MMAM) in collaboration with the U. of Cuenca opened the exhibit, "Heterotopia 3," in which 31 young Cuencan artists are showing their work in...
The headline above is borrowed from a notice posted on a bookstore window in San Anselmo, California. More than a few news programs in the media recently sparkled with airbrushed images of despicable political louts facing serious legal trouble, followed by celebrity...
The Constitutional Court will consider a suit challenging President Daniel Noboa’s temporary transfer of presidential power to Cynthia Gellibert but rejected another case which questioned Noboa’s replacement of Vice President Verónica Abad with Gellibert. The three...
Cuenca not only has the best drinking water in Ecuador, it also has the cleanest rivers. A report on water quality by government biologists and hydrologists, credits the the sewage pollution plant in Ucubamba with drastically improving river quality levels. Until the...
Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a four-part series about professionally guided psychedelic therapy sessions that Cuenca expat C.P James and his wife participated in at a retreat in the nearby Yunguilla Valley. To read part one, click here; part two, click here;...
Jueves, 9/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Sinfónica en Pumapungo (Symphony at Pumapungo) - The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will start its 2025 season with the "Adagios Famosos" concert conducted by Augusto Carrión Rodas el viernes, 10/1 a las 20:00 in the Teatro...
Editor’s note: This is the third of a four-part series about professionally guided psychedelic therapy sessions that Cuenca expat C.P James and his wife participated in at a retreat in the nearby Yunguilla Valley. To read part one, click here; part two, click here....
Martes, 7/1/2025 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Mateo, un artista emergente que 'trasciende las barreras' (Mateo, an emerging artist who 'transcends barriers') - Mateo López is a 24-year-old artist about to graduate in Visual Arts from the U. of Cuenca. His work is part...
Editor’s note: This is the second of a four-part series about professionally guided psychedelic therapy sessions that Cuenca expat C.P James and his wife participated in at a retreat in the nearby Yunguilla Valley. To read part one, click here. The articles are...
