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By Stephen Vargha There are millions of Americans living abroad, but the exact number is unknown. The United States does not formally count the number of Americans who move to other countries, and it does not require its citizens to register an official place of residence. The U.S. Department of State Department thinks U.S. citizens...
Air traffic between the countries of the Andean Community (CAN), including Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru, increased 146.7% from February 2021 to February 2022. In Cuenca, air traffic is also up dramatically although it still lags pre-pandemic levels. According to CAN officials, the Andean countries accommodated 1,784,000 passengers in February 2022, compared to 723,000 in...
Jueves, 2/6/2022 Hola, Todos – Titular – Destitución no para crisis (Impeachment doesn’t stop crisis) – The fight in the Asamblea Nacional which unleashed the impeachment of Guadalupe Llori from the presidency of that body isn’t finished. Her defense has started legal action to return her to office, alleging violation of her rights. Jurists who...
Miércoles, 1/6/2022 Hola, Todos – Titular – Los niños y el cuidado del medio ambiente (Children and environmental care) – Wednesday’s issue of El Mercurio is in celebration of the Día del Niño. The front page is artwork done by students at the Escuela Fiscomisional “San José de Calasanz+*.. The first article is about the...
Martes, 31/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Homenaje a Francisco Paredes (Tribute to Francisco Paredes) – To pay tribute to composer Francisco Paredes Heredia, and to join different generations of musicians on one stage, the DIZA cultural organization is organizing the first Festival de la Canción Ecuatoriana in Cuenca. The first part of the festival...
By Stephen Vargha As the people of Uvalde, Texas mourned, there was little agreement on the root cause of the tragedy or the solution to the staggering average of 321 gun deaths per day in the United States. Dr. Roxane Gay wrote in the New York Times, “Time and again we are told, both implicitly...
Jueves, 26/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Corpus: regresan dulces y castillos (Corpus Christi: candies and castles are back) – The fiesta of Corpus Christi is back after 3 years of pandemic-enforced absence. Sales of sweets and religious events around the Catedral de La Inmaculada Concepción will return between 16-23/6. 124 vendors who have traditionally...
Miércoles, 25/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Dawi: paisajes y fragmentaciones nacen del pincel (Dawi: landscapes and fragmentations born from the brush) – The formal opening of Ariel Dawi’s new exhibit at the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno (MMAM – calles Sucre y Coronel Talbot) will be este viernes a las 19.00. Museum hours are...
Martes, 24/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Titular – Vacunas, inversiones y matanzas (Vaccines, investments and slaughter) – See the Tuesday afternoon edition of CHL for story on Pres. Lasso’s first year. Disapproval ratings for the president are high. 71.18% of Ecuadorians rate Lasso’s 1st year as bad. 66.08% considered the Plan de Vacunación against Covid his...
Lunes, 23/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – From el sábado, 21/5/2022 – Pista abierta para los “tangueros” (Open floor for the “tangueros”) – There will be a “Noche de Tango” el miércoles, 25/5 in the Casa de la Lira. Claudio Ullauri formed a group six years ago to teach tango. The group has currently grown...
Jueves, 19/5/2022 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Muestra – The exhibit, “Mujer Infinita” by artist Diego Buitrón will open mañana a las 19:00 in the Galería de la Alcaldía. Exposición – The show and sale “Waminsi soy Matico” will be at the exposition hall at CIDAP until 10/6. It will show the art of weaving....
In a press conference and radio interviews Wednesday, Azuay Province Governor Matías Abad criticized Mayor Pedro Palacios and other city officials for exaggerating the crime rate in Cuenca. Specifically, Abad said that videos promoting Thursday’s anti-crime march in the historic district include false information that created “unneeded hysteria.” “There are places in Ecuador where crime...
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Week of April 28
General Motors Auto Parts Manufacturer Laments: “Today Marks a Dark Day for the National Industry”.
Minister Requests Resignations in Termogás Machala, Dubbed ‘Epicenter of Energy Inefficiency’.
Chevrolet to Cease Car Assembly in Ecuador by August, Production to Halt in Colombia.