Cuenca News
Viernes, 4/11/2022 Hola, Todos – Titular – A Gobierno se reclama por vías e inseguridad (Requests to Government for roads and security) – In his speech in the solemn session for the 202nd anniversary of the Independence of Cuenca, Mayor Pablo Palacios expressed confidence that he would be re-elected. He also questioned the National Government...
Last week I boarded the bus from Loja to Vilcabamba during peak afternoon hours. It was crowded with weary commuters and students munching chatara. The aisle was free but the seats were jammed. I had a fifty minute ride ahead of me and was nursing a knee injury. I’ve never chosen to play the tercera edad (elderly)...
Miércoles, 2/11/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – From El Mercurio, martes, 1/11: Cuenca acoge la Feria Nacional de la Cerámica (Cuenca hosts the National Ceramics Fair) – The Feria Nacional de Cerámica opened el martes in the Casa de Chaguarchimbana with 15 Ecuadorian exhibitors. Hours are from 10-22:00 until el 9/11. In addition to the...
Lunes, 31/10/2022 Hola, Todos – Happy Halloween. I hope none of you ladies who’ve been collecting Social Security for at least a decade scared any little kids by walking through Parque Calderón in your Hooters costume. Actividades – From El Mercurio del domingo, 30/10: Yurak Allpa abre granja interactive (Yurak Allpa opens interactive farm) –...
By Liam Higgins The practice of criminal gangs demanding money from businesses for “protection” or “security” services has been going on for years in Guayaquil. Since 2020 however, police say the practice has spread to Quito, Cuenca and other cities and that the number of cases is on the rise. Borrowing terminology from the Covid-19...
Periodico – Independencia de Cuenca supplement – sábado, 29/10/2022 Hola, Todos – I’m too tired to proofread so read at your own risk and verify for yourselves. Actividades – Conciertos, para todos los gustos (Concerts, for every taste) – Sábado – 29/10, 20:00 – Pimpinela Argentinean cuo with 98 gold, platinum or diamond discs) –...
By Deke Castleman Heading southwest from Cuenca on the road to Machala and Loja, you leave the city behind fairly quickly and enter the ranch country of the Tarqui Valley, with cattle grazing on rich green grass and the Andes towering over everything. You pass a couple of dairy stores, such as Lacteos Compero, which...
Viernes, 28/10/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – There is a special magazine section with billions of events. I don’t have the time or energy to list those today, so I will regalarles with a special post tomorrow. <I hope you appreciate all this work.> See article in Cuenca section for locations of crafts fairs. From...
Miércoles, 26/10/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Sinfónica de Cuenca: medio siglo de música (Cuenca Symphony: half a century of music) – The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca was founded on 3/11/1972 and over the years it has expanded from classical music to performing other genres from rock to Ecuadorian pasillos. The Symphony is marking this...
Gary Espinoza, president of the Federation of Peasant, Indigenous and Negro Organizations (Fenocin), said Monday that his organization will “very likely” call a strike in November. “This fighting action is necessary, unfortunately, because the government has not fulfilled the agreements it made during the negotiations following the June strike,” he said. In particular, Espinoza said...
Editor’s note: This is the third in a three-part series about a grassroots volunteer project in Cuenca to create the most modern and sustainable animal shelter in Ecuador and address the country’s pain of abused, abandoned and neglected street dogs. By Rosemary Rein During the recent “Breakfast for Dogs” event, Kathy and Bob Keel proposed...
The U.S. State Department is defending a $20,600 grant to a Cuenca educational center, some of which supports live performances, including “drag theater shows,” saying it provides LGBTQ people an outlet “to express themselves freely and safely” in Ecuador. Several U.S. news outlets reported the grant on Sept. 23 to the Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano Abraham...
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