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News from Paute Summer visited Paute last week. The days were clear and warm, the nights clear and cool. A full moon added to the joy; it was as luminescent as ice. It is festival season in Paute and we got just what we were longing for: the Pase del Niño Parade … and...
By Sylvan Hardy If Friday’s Pase del Niño didn’t measure up to previous parades in size, it made up for it in piety and fun. Instead of a seven- or eight-hour procession, it lasted a little over an hour. Instead of 100 floats, there were 23. Instead of 24,000...
By Robert Bradley The tradition of decorating a Christmas tree is far older than Christianity itself. A thousand years older. Pagans in Europe used branches of fir trees to decorate their homes during the winter solstice and early Romans used evergreens to decorate...
Jueves, 23/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Happy Holidays. I hope you will be enjoying them with friends and family, either in person or virtually. Actividades - Nada. Titular - Buñuelo, el postre navideño (Buñuelo, the Christmas dessert) - Buñuelos are a typical dessert at the...
Miércoles, 22/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nuevo concierto en la "Sala Digital" (New concert in the "Sala Digital") - The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca premiered a concert by Luis Chiriboga last 5/11 in the Teatro de la CCE. This performance is now on YouTube...
Martes, 21/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Rodrigo Jara vuelve con obras en metal (Rodrigo Jara returns with metal works ) - Rodrigo Jara works with metals and acids to create pictorial works with a relation to nature as well as abstracts. He has a show at the...
By Martin Simmons The young man who recently moved to Cuenca from California described how thieves stole his cell phone and $100 in cash the first month he was in town. Hearing his story, a middle-aged woman from New Jersey, standing next to him at a party I attended...
Lunes, 20/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Titular - Tibia navidad para el comercio (A lukewarm Christmas for retail) - After a 25% decrease in Christmas sales in 2020, the international container crisis is slowing recovery along with a lack of resources that is...
Every now and then we are rewarded with a new dining venue that transcends the parameters of the typical restaurant by offering food and drink that not only surpass expectations but provide a vibrant new meeting place to those who have called Cuenca home for years as...
Following emergency meetings Friday between the Catholic Archdiocese and city officials it was decided that the annual Pase del Niño Christmas Eve parade would proceed but without most of the participants and onlookers. The church and city said they would release...
New measures intended to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus go into effect today. Announced Monday by the Emergency Operations Committee (COE), they prohibit public events that have not been permitted, limit the capacity for restaurants, churches, shopping...
Cuenca's Pase del Niño Christmas parade has been cancelled for second consecutive year due to Covid-19 pandemic restrictions. District Police Chief Andrés Vicuña made the announcement Thursday following a meeting with the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE)...
By Jeremiah Reardon Fishbon del Sur, a collaborative theater community established in El Centro, closed its doors due to the Covid pandemic. The source of many satisfying moments of entertainment and friendship for my wife Belinda and me, how our lives have changed...
Miércoles, 15/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - En un festival venderán los dulces de conventos (Convent sweets to be sold at a festival) - To reactivate the economic situation of the convents in Cuenca, several have organized the Christmas festival, Dulce Jesús Mío...
Martes, 14/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Oficios rurales en una miiserie documental (Rural trades in a documentary miniseries) - Christian Rojas and Paula Llerena have produced Ayllu, a 10 chapter miniseries documentary on Instagram about traditional work that...
Lunes, 13/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Titular - Campeón 2021 - Independiente del Valle won something and that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Cuenca - Tres vías más a cargo de EMOV (EMOV responsible for three more roads ) - Responsibility for...
On December 10, 1869, Wyoming Territorial Governor John Allen Campbell, citing a “progression of understanding,” signed an act of the Territorial Legislature granting white women the right to vote, the first U.S. state or territory to grant suffrage to women. On...
Jueves, 9/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Invitan a florecimiento de los guayacanes (Invitation to the flowering of the guayacan trees) - One of the best natural spectacles in the world is the flowering of the guayacan trees between diciembre y enero in more than...
Ecuador's mining industry is threatened by legal uncertainty, the sector's guild said on Wednesday, citing a decision by the country's top court to withdraw environmental permissions for a project in a protected forest. The Constitutional Court last week rescinded an...
Martes, 7/12/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Todo listo para el tributo a Queen (All set for Queen tribute) - There will be tribute to Queen by the Argentinean band Dr. Queen el sábado a las 20:00 in the teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz. Tickets are available on the...
