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Ecuador’s Attorney General has formally requested that former President Lenín Moreno and his wife Rocío González be held in preventive detention. Associate Attorney General Wilson Toainga made the request to criminal court Judge Mauricio Espinosa at a Wednesday...
By Stephen Vargha An American loved by many in Cuenca has passed away. Lee Nichols lived in Cuenca for just under three years, but he touched so many in the community. Nichols felt that it is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man,...
By Rosemary Rein FAAN (Fundacion Familia Amor Animal) is committed to not only finding and building a new shelter but additionally being an agent of change toward animal welfare beliefs and behaviors in Ecuador. For eight+ years FAAN has served as a sanctuary for...
President Guillermo Lasso will remain in the Armed Forces Hospital in Quito until at least Friday where he is recovering from a urinary tract infection. He was hospitalized Monday with a high fever and is receiving intravenous treatments and supplemental oxygen, his...
Police are warning neighborhood organizations against taking the law into their own hands. The warning coincided with weekend rallies, marches and road blockages protesting robberies and extortion of businesses. In the Carmen de Guzho parish on Cuenca’s southside,...
Eduardo Stein, a special representative of the UN refugee agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), referred to the ongoing tragedy afflicting Venezuela this way: “The IOM has never faced such a prolonged magnitude of refugee flight from a country that...
Problems on area highways are keeping buyers away from Cuenca holiday craft fairs, artisans say. “All the landslides and closures are hurting the traffic from the coast, which is where many of our customers come from,” says Quito jeweler Paul Ortiz. “Cuenca always has...
Miércoles, 12/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Feria de emprendedores en el Portal Artesanal (Entrepreneurs Fair at the Portal Artesanal) - The "Cuenca del Emprendimiento y la Artesanía" Feria will be this viernes y sábado in the Plaza del Portal Artesanal with 50...
Opposition by indigenous communities in Ecuador is holding up some $1 billion of investments for constructing three mining projects in the South American country, an executive of the Ecuadorian Chamber of Mining said on Tuesday. Ecuador’s largest indigenous...
Lunes, 10/4/2023 Hola, Todos - I will be taking about 3 weeks off starting this Friday and resume translating on Wed., May 3. Actividades - Todo listo para el desfile estudiantil (Everything ready for the student parade) - There will be a parade celebrating the 466th...
By Stephen Vargha Everyone has heard the joke that the “world’s oldest profession” is prostitution. And it has been said the “world’s second-oldest profession” is spying because there are at least two dozen passages about it in the Bible. Those two professions were...
In a major blow to the government, the Imbabura Provincial Court has revoked the license of the Enami-Codelco mine in the Intag forest of Imbabura Province. The judges agreed with local residents who claimed that the Chilean-operated mine violated environmental...
When I was a kid I thought that alchemists were somewhat spooky. I recall reading about how they are said to possess strange visions and stranger incantations, producing results that befuddle or amaze, yet they are always mixed with a dose of suspicion or a liter of...
Lunes, 7/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Un abanico de atractivos en feriado de Semana Santa (A range of attractions for the Easter holiday) - Even though getting to Cuenca is difficult for tourists, there are still many things to do if you're here with the main...
Ecuador’s Risk Management Secretariat (SGR) has upgraded the landslide risk in La Cría from yellow to orange, as cracks in the ground continue to expand. While the yellow designation indicates “serious risk” and urges evacuation, the yellow alert indicates a...
By Garry Vatcher On Wednesday, Hogar de Esperanza brought your donations to Alausí, scene of the devastating March 26 landslide. As you make the last U-curve before the descent into the valley, the devastation becomes clear. The bare mountainside looms over the town...
Alausí Mayor Rodrigo Rea was attacked Tuesday night following a meeting at the city auditorium before police were able to move him to safety. “There is no justification for this and we briefly detained one man who hit the mayor,” National Police captain Roberto Ramos...
Miércoles, 5/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Una tertulia sobre sabores de Ecuador y México (A gathering on the flavors of Ecuador and Mexico) - Culinary researcher Nydia Vázquez and the founder of El Pedregal Azteca, Juan Manuel Ramos, held a "Tertulia...
Lunes, 3/4/2023 Hola, Todos - Sorry, but something went wrong with the formatting and the 5 articles from Sat & Sun's paper that I stayed up to 10:30 to translate all disappeared. And I'm not going to translate them all over again. So this will be a short issue....
Editor's note: For generations, Cuenca has claimed that it has the best fanesca, or Easter soup, in Latin America. The boast gained international credibility in 2005 when the New Yorker magazine ran a cover about it by editor, food writer and poet Calvin Trillin....
