Expat Life
By Christopher Lux On Saturday morning, a concerned resident in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York, called 911 to report a man “mistreating a squirrel.” The man, in fact, was merely roasting a Guinea pig. When the police arrived, the Ecuadorian was cooking the animal on a 4-foot wooden skewer over a park barbecue. As...
By Viktoria Vidali Knowledge is the spring of creative talent. As it expands, it engages the artist’s deeper self and flows into a river of new combinations and relationships, from the quest for peaceful pathways to powerful reflections in color, motion, and feeling. This has been the profound personal experience of painter Janda Grove, native of...
by Jane Pinney [Editor’s Note: Jane Pinney was an Ecuador expat for nearly a year, who just moved to Chile, overland, with two dogs, thanks to her driver from Cuenca, Jon LaBoeuf. Jane is a writer and published author whose work can be seen at letterstogodtwo.com.] Seven is the number of perfection and the length...
By Melina Marks I believe in many things, but one of my highest beliefs is in the value of change. I believe that we cannot grow, we cannot learn, and we cannot become who we are meant to be without change. I used to believe the opposite of this. Change was something I feared, something...
Rosanne Morris knew it was time to pull up stakes when a Canadian acquaintance was found murdered beside a highway south of Guadalajara, Mexico in early February. Like thousands of other U.S. and Canadian expatriates, she lived in the Lake Chapala region of Mexico where she had moved from New York looking for an adventuresome...
By Sylvan Hardy Although it was an instant hit with University of Cuenca students, MeLatte Café in Esquina de las Artes has been discovered by only a handful of expats. MeLatte is the cornerstone of a project to revitalize Esquina de las Artes, an attractive Spanish-sytle commercial center on Av. Doce de Abril and Agustín...
Panama hats are showing up all over at this year’s Cannes film festival and many of them were made in Cuenca. Cuenca’s Ortega Brothers, the world’s largest exporter of Panama hats, or sobreros de paja toquilla, as they are called in Ecuador, says it shipped several to Cannes, including three specially made for what they...
By Karla Freeman I live with questions. Since I live to learn, I understand that questions are the raw material that lead to knowledge. My questions change daily. Before moving to Cuenca, I lived in Buenos Aires and I had very different sets of questions. Who were the good tango teachers? Where could I see...
By Sylvan Hardy It is a welcomed but often overlooked phenomenon on the Cuenca restaurant scene, and one that has transformed the experience of eating out over the past five or six years. It goes like this. Ecuadorians leave home, spend years working in U.S., Canadian and European restaurants, then return to Cuenca and open...
By Viktoria Vidali Much has been written about the “expat experience,” often in bulleted or numbered prescriptions, but we humans are not programmable like computers,and even when following good and well-meaning advice, many of us are still unable to quell those emotions of lingering uncertainty and sadness for what we left behind. There’s something to be said for...
Editor’s note: To read about Ecuador banking requirements for foreigners, click here. By Laura Saunders The traditional challenges of expatriate life—adapting to a new culture and language, separation from family and friends—are being complicated by the tougher U.S. laws and more aggressive scrutiny of overseas bank accounts held by U.S. citizens. William Hart, who moved...
By Wendy Jane Carrel Cuenca, aside from being a UNESCO Heritage Site with beautiful colonial buildings and a unique history, offers unexpected and pleasant surprises if you’ve lived here a while. What you’ve probably read or know is that this is a city of 600,000 (including urban parishes) at an elevation of 8,400 feet, nestled...
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Week of May 05
Record Number of Tourist Visas Granted to Ecuadorians by the United States between October 2022 and September 2023.
Minister of Energy Advocates for Legislation Empowering Private Companies in Electrical Supply Sector.
Noboa Stands Firm: No Extradition of Fugitives from Ecuador.
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