Expat Life
By Stephen Vargha When one is asked what ethnicities outside of the indigenous are represented in Cuenca, Italian is certainly not at the top of the list. Obviously Spanish is at the top with its colonial past. Ecuador, especially Cuenca, has not been a destination for Italians. There are about 56,000 descendants of Italians in […]
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By John Olson Azuay Community Theater’s next production is Trumbo: Red, White and Blacklisted. It’s the funny and moving story of the brilliant, but abrasive screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who stubbornly held to his principles in the face of persecution by the US Congress and the film industry in the era of the Hollywood Blacklist that […]
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By Stephen Vargha Known as the Dean of American Cookery, James Beard once said, “Good cheese needs good companions.” Many expats in Cuenca yearn for that companionship. They found it difficult to get quality cheese in the city. Until now. “We started small with a place on Calle Rafael Torres Beltrán,” said Maria Augusta Naula. […]
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By Caitlin Dow “You’d think we’d have a one-sentence answer,” says Colleen Muñoz, assistant professor of health sciences at the University of Hartford. “But it’s much more complicated.” The usual advice to drink eight 8 oz. glasses of water a day—the 8-by-8 rule—seems daunting. But it was never about water alone. “The National Academy of […]
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By Sandra Beaumont It’s been a cold night. I can’t control the shivering that wracks my body. My bones ache as I pull myself from the hollow that’s been home for the last few months. I stretch, first one way, then the other, easing cramped muscles. I need to move. It’s time to leave. The […]
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By Sinead Mulhern On a rainy day, I find out about the kind of middle-of-nowhere adventure that I live for. Three parts of Ecuador’s Inca Trail happening on three separate weekends. One involves camping in the wild, another features a waterfall. My heart skips a beat. Already I know this landscape: the shark-tooth rows of […]
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By Jeremiah Reardon It was an overcast Friday afternoon in Cuenca when I joined two other students in a guitar lesson taught by one of Ecuador’s finest practitioners of the art, Bolivar Sarmiento, at Casa del Alfarero Cultural Center. The charismatic instructor strolled into the center’s lobby in a casual outfit set off with a […]
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Miércoles, 9/8/2023 Hola, Todos – Titular – “De 20 pantallas para el monitoreo solo sirven 3” (Only 3 out of the 20 monitoring screens work) – Two serious assaults linked with banks occured in less than a week in Cuenca. In the most recent, $50,000 was stolen in an armed attack on an armored truck. […]
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By J. Kenji López-Alt With most of us quarantined in our homes, chances are you’ve been reacquainting yourself with the forgotten spices and fusty beans from the depths of your pantry. But how fusty is too fusty? When is the right time to throw something out? And what about fresh ingredients? If I’m trying to keep […]
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By Andrea Michelson Dr. Clyde Yancy, chief of cardiology at Northwestern Medicine and former president of the American Heart Association, is not interested in living longer just for the sake of it. “I’m less interested in the lifespan and more interested in the healthspan,” he told Insider. While lifespan simply sums up how many years […]
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By Garry Vatcher After driving all night, 20 hours in total, we made it to Esmeraldas on Saturday around noon. We took the long way, as we had to make a quick stop in Tulcan. I prefer entering Esmeraldas from Ibarra. The scenery along the road from Ibarra to San Lorenzo is stunningly beautiful. Where […]
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Creative men and women intuitively know that every artistic pursuit is dependent on three equally essential elements: art, craft, and music. It is worth noting, as well, that one cannot function without the others, just as we cannot function without the shared participation and collaboration the trio provides. The recent discovery of 12,000-year-old ochre paintings […]
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The Cuenca Dispatch
Week of September 24.
Financial ‘Stress-test’ Highlights Weaknesses in Ecuador’s Private Banks
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Ecuador Has One of the Weakest Passports in Latin America
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Cuenca’s Tram Celebrates 3-Year Anniversary Without System Integration or Funding Solutions
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