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After an exhaustive two-year search, Cuenca’s expat theater finally has a place it can call home. “We walked almost every street in Cuenca looking for the right place and we’re thrilled that we finally found it,” says Deana Culp, Azuay Community Theater (ACT) board of...
Ecuador’s tuna fleet has grown to the second largest in world, trailing only Thailand in “catch capacity.” The 116-vessel fleet brought 93,000 tons of fish to port in 2017 but it faces a challenge. To maintain its dominate position within the industry, many of the...
By Daniela Gallardo and Liam Anderson The kidnapping of journalists by a dissident group of FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) on the border with Ecuador represents another complicating factor to Colombia’s road to peace after more than 50 years of armed...
By L. Finch We’re living in a golden age for dystopian fiction, or so the critics say. Our pages and screens are filled with tyrannical governments, tech slavery, and surveillance run amok — dark imaginings of a society where the arm of injustice is inventive and...
U.S. actress Pamela Anderson, British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis have asked President Lenin Moreno to restore Julian Assange’s access to the internet. Ecuador suspended Assange’s account at the country’s...
Ecuador’s Central Bank reported Friday that the economy grew by a strong 3 percent in 2017, almost double most projections. The bank said the growth was spurred by household spending, as well as an increase in exports and hydro electric power generation. The growth...
The streets of Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca were crowded with the Christian faithful on Good Friday, recreating Christ’s walk to Calvary, attending prayer vigils and participating in other Catholic rituals. In Guayaquil, an estimated 500,000 walked with a dozen...
Foreigners living in Ecuador without visas have until Monday, April 2, to get their affairs in order. After that, they could face fines as high $6,000. Like many provisions of the country’s new immigration law, however, enforcement of the registration requirement may...
Viernes, 30/3/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Teatro - There were/will be 3 shows hoy en la Vitrina in the CCE. "Ya llegaron los titeres" (The puppets already got here), "El Muro de las Sombras" (The Wall of Shadows), and "Wñam," will be...
Ecuador suspended internet access for Julian Assange Wednesday for social media posts supporting Spanish separatists and an attack on Britain for expelling Russian diplomats. According to the ministry of foreign affairs, Assange's recent posts violate a December...
By Sarah Kaplan The settlement looked like little more than 11 mounds of earth surrounded by a sunken ditch. But if Jonas Gregorio de Souza closed his eyes, he could imagine the Boa Vista site as it would have appeared 800 years ago. Perhaps, the archaeologist said,...
The government says that three reporters from the Quito newspaper El Comercio are alive and well and that talks are underway for their release. The reporters were kidnapped Monday near Mataje, several hundred meters from the Colombian border. Mataje is the site of a...
Facing a $5 billion budget deficit, Ecuador has no choice but to return to the international bond market in 2018, says a financial advisor to President Lenin Moreno. According Miguel Carvajal, head of the Moreno’s political affairs office, the government is preparing...
By Fernando Pagés Ruiz The first thing that strikes you about the prominent billboard, when you make the turn onto Via a la Costa — the highway to the coast — that takes you from Guayaquil to the beach resort towns along the Pacific shoreline of Ecuador, is the price:...
Last week’s deadly attack on Ecuadorian marines patrolling the Colombian border prompted an emergency Saturday meeting of the Binational Border Commission at the Tulcán military base. Three marines died as a result of a roadside bomb police say was planted by drug...
Ecuador’s high court ruled last week that a 2015 law ending government funding for the country’s Social Security (IESS) system was unconstitutional and ordered the contribution to resume in 2019. Not everyone is happy with the decision, however. “We are pleased that...
Although Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has committed more resources to combating drug trafficking on its southern border with Ecuador, some officials say the response is not enough. Santos called President Lenin Moreno following Tuesday’s deadly bombing,...
By Ashley Rogers Shell and Marsha Spivey didn’t know they would be changing the face of a village when they first moved to La Entrada — a sleepy fishing village on the Ruta de Spondylus on the Ecuadorian Coast. But, they have, and in ways that can only be called...
The women come from all parts of Ecuador’s Amazon region but they share one thing in common: a fierce determination to stop the growing oil exploration and mining activity on what they consider ancestral land. President Lenin Moreno has agreed to meet with the Women...
By Manuel Betancourt Director Juan Sebastian Jacome could never have anticipated how timely his second feature film, Cenizas, would be. By the time of its premiere at the Miami Film Festival, this Ecuadorian-set story about a daughter and a father reconnecting as the...
