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By Jeff Salz Marvin and Bruno are brothers who started living on the football field next to our home about a month ago. After a week of watching their antics in amazement -- enjoying their almost magical prowess with a soccer ball, their relentless hard training...
According to transit police, all major highways leading into and out of Cuenca were impassable early Wednesday night. After a massive landslide closed the Cuenca-Guayaquil highway through the Cajas Mountains, transportation officials suggested drivers use alternative...
Miércoles, 3/3/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Hay riesgos de desbordamientos (There are risks of overflows) - The Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología (INAMHI) is predicting heavy rains for the rest of the week in Cuenca, the...
A demographic study of global migration patterns by the University of Barcelona and InterNations predicts that Cuenca and Quito will continue to rank one and two as the most popular landing spots in Ecuador and South America for international expats as the impact of...
Martes, 2/3/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Daños por lluvias (Rain damage) - The rains have caused damage in Pucará, Santa Isabel, Girón and Cuenca in Azuay and in Azogues in Cañar. <Following is basically a list of damage so...
By Stephen Vargha Worldwide, there is no shortage of delicious and highly rated vegan restaurants. The website Happy Cow, that works like Yelp, but only for vegan and vegetarian food, lists at least 5,523 plant-based restaurants in South America. Not surprising,...
By Jan Dynes Despite all the ugly alternative news and craziness that were a megaphone for how loud the obnoxious can be there are many who have simply perservered through the pandemic. We need to realize that those who were quiet and not screaming from the rooftops...
Road blocks were erected early Monday morning in Cañar and Azuay Provinces, stopping traffic on highway E35, Ecuador’s major north-south thoroughfare. The Provincial Union of the Cañaris defied the national indigenous organization, Conaie, with which it is affiliated,...
One of the many advantages of being a journalist is that you can take your workplace anywhere. You do not need a forge or kiln, a frame stretched with canvas, or cans of spray paint and a vacant wall. All you need is a laptop to capture what you are writing and a...
By Jeremiah Reardon My wife Belinda and I watched the New Year fireworks set off in Cuenca, shifting from our apartment’s kitchen terrace to the living room window. Like other recent city events since the pandemic lockdown in March, the fireworks felt diminished. The...
As the bodies of the dead were identified Thursday in Cuenca, the prosecutor’s office began reviewing evidence to determine who was responsible for Tuesday’s massacre at the Turi prison and three other prisons in Guayaquil and Latacunga. Included in the evidence are...
Jueves, 25/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - MMAM hace un guiño a su pasado (MMAM gives a wink to its past) - The Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno has organized two shows to celebrate its 40 years as a museum. It opened in 1981 in one of the...
As national officials debate the reasons for Tuesday’s riots and murders in four federal prisons, Cuenca’s mayor demanded that the most violent prisoners be transferred out of the Turi Rehabilitation Center south of the city. Other local officials, including two...
Miércoles, 24/2/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Sinfónica con nuevo director (Symphony has a new conductor) - Augusto Carrión, the new conductor for the Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca, replaces Michael Meissner, and will debut on el 26/2 a las...
Several years ago, Edie and I decided to take our cameras and their support equipment on a different type of shoot. We had never done any planned bird photography and decided to try our hands at it. However, we had both been able to make some very good bird...
A common complaint of many Cuenca expats is the city’s lack of high quality adult assisted living options. Typical of the frustration was a recent Facebook post by Martha Simmons. “My husband and I have visited several adult care homes in Cuenca and found them...
Martes, 23/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Áreas más seguras para los transeúntes (Safer areas for pedestrians) - The Municipalidad de Cuenca is testing a new area of superblocks bounded by Don Bosco, Loja, De Las Américas, e Isabel La...
Army troops began entering federal prisons Tuesday afternoon in Cuenca, Guayaquil and Latacunga in an attempt to contain what the government is calling coordinated riots by criminal gangs. At 3:30 p.m. the interior ministry said at least 62 have died in the riots with...
By Sylvan Hardy According to archeologists, the first humans arrived in the Cuenca area about 10,000 years ago, setting up camp in the Chopshi cave, 18 miles east of the city. The site has yielded a bounty of arrow heads, spear points, pottery and tool shards....
Lunes, 22/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - "Dedicada a mi ex" una película ecuatoriana que triunfa en Netflix ("Dedicated to my ex", an Ecuadorian film that triumphs on Netflix) - This film, co-produced by Touché and Dynamo, is the first...
