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Does going “gluten-free” mean you’ll automatically lose weight, shrink your “wheat belly” or prevent Alzheimer’s disease? Or as Jimmy Kimmel demonstrated quite hilariously, are you someone who has stopped eating gluten because someone in your Yoga class told you to?...
A reader wrote to ask, "Is white rice bad for you?" She was talking about weight management. But let's talk nutrition too. The world is getting rounder, and I don't mean the geographical sphere we call planet Earth, I mean the inhabitants. As reported by the World...
Víctor Salazar, 34, once practiced law in Venezuela. Today, he supports himself by selling cigarettes on the streets of Quito. It gives him no pleasure knowing he is breaking a law and could be fined $788 and even deported. But Salazar is stuck. He cannot afford to...
If you’ve been looking for Ecuadorian recipes with a little international flare, your hostess is Layla Pujol, commonly known as Laylita. Layla grew up in Vilcabamba and Loja, south of Cuenca, but lives today in Seattle, in the U.S., with her French husband and two...
Are you living in Ecuador or are you thinking of moving here? A regular query on social media posts is, “What should I bring from home?“ Recently, I’ve seen, “Should I bring down an Instant Pot?” Another was, “Can I buy an Instant Pot in Cuenca?” The answers are,...
We recently returned from a three-week journey in Florida, U.S., traveling almost two-thousand miles around the state, visiting big and small cities, little towns and, of course, beaches. And everywhere was plastic, from plastic bags at every grocery store to...
Cuenca's municipal council has given the 2019 Fray Jose Maria Vargas Architectual Award to Casas del Ciprés, a condominium project in El Centro at Calle Larga and Benigno Malo. The award ceremony will be today at 4 p.m. in the Salón de la Ciudad, as part of the...
By Liam Higgins The indigenous people living near the high plains of Ozogoche in Chimborazo Province call it the “The Tribute.” Scientists who have studied it say they have some ideas but that it remains mostly a mystery. The tribute, or the mystery, however you...
By David Morrill and Deke Castleman What do U.S. expats think about using the U.S. dollar in Ecuador? Not much, frankly, although it's hard to deny that it makes life easier. We don’t have to worry about exchange rates or go through the hassle of trading dollars for a...
The U.S. has signed an agreement to support Ecuador in its campaign to keep drug traffickers out of the country. The agreement, which invites the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to provide on-the-ground assistance, was signed Wednesday in Quito. “We need...
According to Ecuador’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), Quito will be Ecuador’s largest city after the 2020 national census. INEC predicts that Quito will have a population of 2,781,000 while Guayaquil will stand at 2,723,000. The projections are...
Editor’s note: How would you rate the world’s top travel destinations? The Flight Network, one the largest international travel websites, asked the question to 800 travel professionals. Among their top choices was Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands. Here’s what the editors...
The decision of six members of the Union of South American Nations (Unasur) to suspend their membership has left the Quito-based organization on life support. Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Peru last week informed Bolivia, which holds the pro tempore...
Colombia is looking for a new mediator in its peace negotiations with a rebel guerilla organization. In an official statement, Ecuador said that it would no longer be a guarantor of peace talks between the government in Bogota and the National Liberation Army (ELN), a...
Ecuador is in much better position to defeat drug traffickers than Colombia and it’s not just because the country produces almost no illegal drugs of its own. “When the journalists from El Comercio were kidnapped and then killed, tens of thousands of people from all...
Latin America’s largest carrier has cancelled hundreds of flights after a flight attendants union rejected a contract offer from the Chile-based airline, bringing the number of grounded passengers to 300,000 since the strike began last week. The company said a total...
Editor's note: To understand what Ecuador faces in its battle against drug cartels on its northern border, it is first necessary to understand how the Colombian drug trade operates. It is massive, it is murderous and it continues to expand. Compiled by the editors of...
Ecuadorian Cristina Jiménez has been named to Time magazine’s list of the world's 100 most influential people. Jiménez, who moved to the U.S. with her parents when she was 13, is the founder of United We Dream, an organization dedicated to the rights of young...
By M.C. McGrath and Glenn Greenwald Julian Assange has been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the Government of Ecuador blocked Assange’s internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his...
Ecuador’s state prosecutors’ office said on Wednesday that it has opened an investigation of former President Rafael Correa and 10 former officials for alleged mismanagement of public debt during the last five years of his administration. “There were irregularities in...
