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More than150 Ecuadorians, most of them university students, have arrived in Poland from Ukraine in the last 24 hours, the Foreign Ministry reports. The ministry says that an unknown number of other Ecuadorians have crossed the borders into Slovakia, Hungary, Romania...
It is unclear exactly how many Ecuadorians are living in Ukraine. On Wednesday, the government gave an estimate of 700 but increased it to 1,500 Thursday. “Our citizens are there for many reasons, including being married to Ukrainian nationals, and it is impossible to...
Cuenca city officials hoped to confine Thursday’s Noche de los Compadres and Comadres, the official opening of the Carnaval holidays, to San Francisco Plaza but the plaza couldn’t contain the massive turnout. Surrounding streets and Parque Calderon, the traditional...
Jueves, 24/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - See article below in "Region" for carnaval activities in Cañar Titular - "No hay...llame otro día" ("There aren't any...call another day.") - As typical for the past years, affiliates of the Instituto Ecuatoriano de...
Martes, 22/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Presencialidad obligada desde el 14 de marzo (Attendance required after March 14) - Ayer, the Government announced that mandatory in person classes will resume el 14/3. The decision was made since health...
Lunes, 21/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Ofertas turísticas (Touristic offers) - The traditional Jueves de Compadres y Comadres will be held in San Francisco Plaza Thursday, starting at 18:00. The event was originally announced for Alejandro Serrano Aguilar...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios defended his decision to change the city logo over the weekend, claiming that the graphic artist who designed the artwork “did not charge a penny for his efforts.” He also said that the signage erected in several locations in the historic...
In an unannounced visit to Cuenca Wednesday afternoon, President Guillermo Lasso summoned area mayors, parochial officials and the Azuay prefect to a meeting at the government building on Parque Calderon. Lasso met collectively and individually with officials,...
Jueves, 17/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Dos exposiciones en un museo y galería de arte (Two exhibitions in a museum and art gallery) - <Finally something to translate in this section - after 2 years of nada.> An exhibit, "Desnudez del alma" by Cuban artist...
Miércoles, 16/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Cuatro municipos se unen para Carnaval del Pueblo Cañari (Four cities join for Carnival of the Cañari people) - The agenda is ready in Biblián, El Tambo, Cañar and Suscal for the "Lalay Raymi" festival, also known as...
Martes, 15/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Violinista checo dará concierto con ritmos variados (Czech violinist to give concert with varied rhythms) - Pavel Sporcl will be performing at the Catedral Vieja el 24/2 a las 19:30. The program will include traditional...
Lunes, 14/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - From el periodico del sábado, 12/2/2022 Úywacuna' muestra la simbología animal en las artesanías populares (Úywacuna' shows animal symbology in popular handicrafts) - CIDAP opened an exhibit with 200 of their 8500 pieces el...
Cuencana Airlines announced Friday that it will begin air taxi service between Cuenca and Guayaquil beginning in March. The flights, operating under charter status with the Ecuador Civil Aviation Directorate, will use three 14-passenger Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft....
By David Morrill and Deke Castleman The large influx of foreigners to Cuenca in the past decade-and-a-half has turned this Andean city into a world-class laboratory experiment for what immigration experts call “amenities migration” or "voluntary migration." In the...
By Robert Milders If Agnes Edwards worked in the comedy trade, where timing is everything, she wouldn’t be quite ready for the downtown comedy club, much less prime time. In her February 10 commentary on this website, Agnes encourages expats to report those who use or...
Jueves, 10/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Mujeres científicas, protagonistas de exposición (Women scientists, stars of exhibit) - Starting today, girls and women involved in science will the main characters of a schedule of activities around the Día Internacional...
Miércoles, 9/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - USD 300 mil falsos ($300,000 counterfeit) - The Prosecutor's Office and Policía Nacional executed an operation in which 4 people who were part of a counterfeiting organization were arrested in San Pablo de...
By Agnes Edwards A number of expats have asked me if I have knowledge of someone producing fake vaccination certificates, using them, or selling them to other expats, and how can they report this to the authorities. The law is clear: fabricating a false vaccination...
Martes, 8/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Titular - Se reencuentran alumnos y maestros (Students and teachers meet again) - Yesterday, rural students in the whole country went back to face-to-face classes in all grades. In urban zones, the return to classes was obligatory for...
Lunes, 7/2/2022 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Carlos Ballarta se presentará en Cuenca con su gira "Rebelde Comodino" (Carlos Ballarta will perform in Cuenca with his tour "Rebel Comodino") - Comedian Carlos Ballarta who has been on Netflix and Comedy Central (in...
