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By Miguel Lo Bianco Archaeologists have discovered the earliest dated cave paintings in South America in Argentine Patagonia, dating back 8,200 years. The 895 paintings were found by Argentine and Chilean archaeologists in the Huenul 1 cave, a 630 square meter rock...
By Erika Mouynes The US presidential campaigns this year are expected to see more than $10bn spent on advertisements, and the main issue will almost certainly be immigration. A popular social media hashtag related to Latin America in the US has been #securetheborder....
Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld said Saturday that Ecuador is experiencing a “vastly improved crime scenario” in 2024 compared to 2023. “The United Nations just reported the impressive progress we have made in combatting illegal drug crime,” she said Saturday in...
Domingo, 17/3/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del sábado, 17/3 (1 article): Sembrarán 100 mil plantas nativas por el Día del Agua (100,000 native plants to be planted for Water Day) - The City of Cuenca with EMAC (a municipal business) and the Gobierno...
The Attorney General’s office filed corruption charges against 13 people on Friday, including former National Assemblyman Ronny Aleaga and ordered their arrests. Aleaga, a member of the Correista Citizen’s Revolution party is the second assemblyman facing criminal...
By Saskia O'Donoghue Málaga locals are frustrated by the growing influx of tourists and now they’re expressing their feelings in no uncertain terms. The Spanish city’s centre has been hit with a wave of stickers, posted on walls and doors, telling visitors what...
Viernes, 15/3/2024 Hola, Todos - I hope you all had a happy Pi Day yesterday (March 14=3/14=3.14159). I celebrated with pizza and made a rhubarb pie. There were 2 packages of rhubarb at the Coral on Wed. afternoon, so unless they restocked, now there aren't any. I...
By Garry Vatcher An article posted on this site earlier in the week has stirred up a lot of questions about tax filing requirements in Ecuador. The article was based on the advice of a Cuenca accountant but, as many of us have learned, if you ask five professionals...
Peruvian authorities have arrested 18 people as part of an investigation into an arms trafficking ring and its role in the 2023 assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate. At least 600 police officers raided homes and offices in Lima and in the Tumbes,...
By Juan Elman Salvadoran street vendor Maria earned just $10 selling sweets and handicrafts today – a particularly bad day. It’s half of what she usually gets: $20 on average; $25 if she’s lucky. “Sales are not good. There is tourism in the area, but people don’t come...
Ecuador’s Health Ministry reported Thursday that the country has recorded seven deaths and more than 8,000 cases of mosquito-borne dengue fever since the beginning of 2024. As the rainy season begins in the coastal region of the country, more cases are expected in...
The government announced Wednesday it is creating a specialized police force to investigate crimes of extortion, including kidnappings. According to National Police Colonel Byron Ramos, head of the National Directorate of Crimes Against Life (Dinased), the team will...
By Mark Hay In 1999, the Peruvian press celebrated a decisive victory for their nation over the great avatar of globalized consumerism, Coca-Cola. For decades, the transnational behemoth had tried to become the top-selling soda in Peru. Yet it never managed to surpass...
By Elle Hunt Women are rarely given the chance to forget about our biological clocks: their starting, slowing, stopping. I remember talking about whether I’d want children with my mum when I was six or seven years old. Now that I’m 32, my friends are having children,...
Over the objections of several priests, Archbishop Marcos Pérez has appointed Father Francisco Calle as the official Cuenca diocese exorcist. According to the Archbishop’s office, the position had been vacant for several years. Pérez said that Calle would be available...
By Julie Campbell The indigenous Achuar community in Ecuador’s Amazon region is undergoing a game-changing transition to solar energy to power its homes and the boats that navigate jungle waterways. The population of the village numbers about 100 people and is...
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – the most common type of dementia – was first discovered by clinical psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer who described a 50-year-old woman, Auguste Deter, in a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital in 1901. It affects one...
The president of the Azuay Provincial Court of Justice is demanding that Cuenca municipal councilman Gustavo Valencia prove his claim that a “culture of corruption” exits in local courts. Valencia lodged his charges in a series of social media posts over the weekend....
By Stephen Vargha The global organic food market was valued at $227.5 billion in 2023. And it is expected to reach $785.5 billion in ten years, according to a research report published by Spherical Insights & Consulting. Casa Yangoe, on Benigno Malo near Calle...
By Leah Asmelash We’ve all seen those white streaks trailing behind jets, creating stripes against the blue sky. The lines are called contrails, short for condensation trails, and they appear when water vapor condenses and freezes around the exhaust from an aircraft,...
