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Dear Paulee, When I woke up this morning the sky was nearly clear. I thought the flotilla of clouds sailing far down the valley would find moorage on the coast, but they tacked upwind instead, gathering strength in numbers until they became a single vast grey ship...
The Cuenca Chamber of Mining says it will not accept a referendum vote banning large scale gold and silver mining in the Cuenca Canton. Chamber President Patricio Vargas says he will go to court to overturn the ban if necessary. Polls show that voters will...
Jueves, 4/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - More nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Votación en el exterior, en riesgo (Voting abroad, at risk) - Covid restrictions on movement are changing world wide, and it will only be known on voting day how many of the 410,000...
Martes, 2/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - No hay nada. <Have yourselves another boring day with nothing to do.> Otras cosas - Titular - Transportistas vuelven a protestar (Carriers protest again) - Yesterday, for the 2nd time in 2 months, the organizations of...
Lunes, 1/2/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Abren convocatoria a la Fiesta de Música (Open call for the Fiesta de Música) - The Alianza Francesa which has produced the Fiesta de Música for 25 years is asking for musicians, designers, photographers, and audiovisual...
Owners of Cuenca’s municipal buses resumed service of the Baños-to-Ricaurte 100 route Friday, claiming that the city had failed to complete a transportation integration plan that it promised four months ago. The chamber also says that the city owes bus owners hundreds...
Geo arrived at the bus station at 5 a.m. His entire family joined him, but only that far. He alone held a ticket that would allow travel to the border – and the beginning of a journey that would take him far from his ancestral home, and onto the pathway of his...
Target will no longer sell coconut milk made by the Thai company Chaokoh after an investigation alleged the drink is tied to forced monkey labor, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced Monday. “By dropping Chaokoh, Target is joining thousands of...
Miércoles, 27/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Del cuerpo del periodico - Actividades sobre la paja toquilla (Activities about straw weaving) - The CCE, INPC and UDA are organizing 3 activities about straw weaving el próxima 29/1. The first...
Martes, 26/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada Otras cosas - Titular - Ocho años de prisión (Eight years in prison) - The Corte Nacional de Justicia sentenced 7 people including ex-VP Jorge Glas for a new crime of corruption in the Singue case. Also sentenced were...
Lunes, 25/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - De AstraZeneca, 5 millones de vacunas ( 5 million vaccines from AstraZeneca) - The Agencia Nacional de Regulación, Control y Vigilancia Sanitaria (Arcsa) authorized the use and importation of 5...
The Quito Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Industries and Production and the Quito Restaurant Association are appealing to Mayor Jorge Yunda to roll back new restrictions on driving, business hours and liquor sales. Diego Vivero, representing the restaurant...
Art, craft, and music are basic human functions. They also cannot function without one another and we cannot function without the shared participation and collaboration they provide. The recent discovery of ochre paintings, some 12,500 years old and spanning nearly...
Jueves, 21/1/2021 Hola, Todos - The article yesterday about the closure of the chifa did not name the chifa, and the health inspector I talked to was in the U.S. By law, businesses under legal investigation or penalized for local violations cannot be named by the...
Miércoles, 20/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Catálogo con productos del Azuay (Catalog with Azuay products) - MIES has published "Nosotras emprendemos," a digital catalogue for women entrepreneurs who have gotten Crédito de Desarrollo...
Martes, 91/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Del cuerpo del periodico - Ingenieros alistan foro sobre consulta minera (Engineers prepare forum on mining consultation) - The Colegio de Ingenieros Civiles del Azuay (CECA) will hold a virtual forum el viernes a las...
By Liam Higgins Ecuadorians living on the country's north coast were reminded once again last week that they live in the seismically active zone known as the "ring of fire" that encircles the Pacific Ocean. Over an eight-day period, more than 100 earthquakes were...
Lunes, 18/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada Otras cosas - Titular - Semana inicia con mira en vacunación (Week starts with a view to vaccination) - The first 15,000 doses of Covid vaccines will arrive in the country this week and vaccinations will start. Similar...
2020 was devastating for Cuenca businesses and although there is cautious optimism for 2021, owners and managers say significant recovery depends on the pandemic. “In September and October last year, we had good feelings for 2021 but some of those have faded,” says...
Sábado, 16/1/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Vanegas y Hermida a II vuelta (2nd round for Vanegas y Hermida) - Elections for rector of the U. of Cuenca will go to a 2nd round of voting between Pablo Vanegas and María Augusta Hermida on...
