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In response to riots in at least five federal prisons on Monday, President Daniel Noboa has declared a 60-day state of emergency which includes an 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. The emergency also suspends rights of household privacy and freedom on assembly. The...
National Police Commander Cesar Zapata confirmed Sunday afternoon that the leader of the Los Choneros criminal gang may have escaped from the Guayaquil Regional Prison. José Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was not in his cell when police entered the prison to transfer him...
Although Ecuador’s largest hydroelectric generation plants are operating at near-normal capacity due to recent rains, more electric blackouts may be required as maintenance work will reduce power in the coming weeks. “Under normal circumstances, the return to full...
Viernes, 5/1/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Agenda cultural - 6/1, 10:00 - Workshop, Escultura orgánica (Organic sculpture) - Museo de la Conceptas. 8/1, 14:00 - Training, Repujado artistico (Artistic embossing) - Quinta Bolívar. 10/1, 18:30 - Screening, Anatomy of...
President Daniel Noboa defended the 11 questions he plans to submit to voters in a referendum, saying his “number one priority” is protecting the citizens of Ecuador from crime. His comments in a radio interview and a press conference on Thursday followed criticism of...
Calling it a “critically important link to the coast," Azuay Province Prefect Juan Cristóbal Lloret is demanding that the government make immediate repairs to the Cuenca-Girón-Machala highway. The highway has been closed repeatedly recently as a result of heavy rain....
By Liam Higgins If you’re looking for buildable commercial property on Av. Odoñez Lasso, expect to pay as much as $1,300 a square meter. Three or four blocks off of Lasso, on residential streets, land prices average $500 to $650 a meter. Even if you head several miles...
Ecuador's hydroelectric generation plants are operating at their highest level in more than three months, the Energy Ministry reported Sunday. As a result of recent rains in the intermountain valley and in the eastern foothills of the Andes, the generation facilities...
By Sylvan Hardy Journalists are unanimous in their verdict that 2023 was not a good year for Ecuador. The headlines highlighted surging drug violence, the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, political gridlock in the National Assembly, the...
The Foreign Exchange Exit Tax (ISD) will remain at 3.5% and will not drop to 2% on December 31, as planned by former President Guillermo Lasso. President Daniel Noboa said Thursday he is “pausing” further reductions in the tax as a result of Ecuador’s budget crisis....
A National Court judge agreed Thursday with prosecutors that Wilman Terán, former president of Ecuador’s Judiciary Council, should remain jailed until he goes on trial in 120 days. Terán was one of 31 people arrested in the Operation Metastasis investigation, accused...
Rains that fell over most of the country on Tuesday and Wednesday have refilled rivers and reservoirs but have also caused landslides and flooding. “There is always the bad side effects of heavy rain but, on balance, this is very good news since it brings drought...
Cuenca is the case that proves the point, says parttime expat and retired criminology professor Martin Simmons, referring to a recent article in the Washington Post that called the crime situation in Ecuador a “tale of two countries.” “The story quoted a United...
Former Vice President Jorge Glas has officially requested political asylum in Mexico after taking up residency at the Mexican embassy in Quito last week. The former vice president faces corruption charges for mismanagement of reconstruction funds in Manabí Province...
During a Thursday visit to Cuenca, President Daniel Noboa announced that the city will host the 29th Ibero-American Summit in November 2024. According to Noboa, the city was chosen in part because of the interest of King Felipe VI of Spain, who has an ancestral...
Editor’s note: Garry Vatcher is the founder and director of Hogar Esperanza, a Cuenca-based charity dedicated to providing services and support to Ecuadorians and migrants who need assistance. Their services include medical support, disaster relief and financial...
Miércoles, 20/12/2023 Hola, Todos - This will be my last post for the year. <I was very tempted to put the period after "post," but my sense of obligation won out. One of these days I'm going to say s***w it or die on you, and hopefully you will have learned enough...
Lunes, 18/12/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Ballet en el parque Calderón - The ballet, "Cascanuezes" (Nutcracker), will be performed el viernes 22/12 a las 20:00 in the parque Calderón. This follows a first performance last sábado. Free. Expo de bienes patrimoniales...
Cuenca’s four rivers were flowing at normal levels Sunday night following two days of rain. “The rivers are temporarily replenished and the city’s drinking water reservoirs have refilled,” the municipal drinking water authority, ETAPA, reports. ETAPA’s...
Domingo, 17/12/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Rituales por Kapak Raymi (Rituals for Kapak Raymi) - The Museo de las Culturas Aborígenes and the Museo Pumapungo will celebrate Kapac Raymi on el 21/12. This Andean celebration on the solstice, is in honor of...
