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Cuenca bus owners announced Thursday afternoon that they will suspend next week's strike as talks continue with the city on a variety of issues. "This is a temporary action based on negotiations with the municipality about the allocation of routes, bus capacity...
An angry President Lenín Moreno blasted pharmaceutical companies Wednesday night for delays in shipments of Covid-19 vaccines to Ecuador. “We have contracts for these doses that were signed months ago. We have made our payments and have the dates we should receive...
Miércoles, 12/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada. Otras cosas - Titular - A 5 ejes destinarán crédito CAF (CAF credit will be allocated to 5 areas) - The Concejo Cantonal approved a new debt from the Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina (CAF) in the amount of...
The Cuenca Transport Chamber, which represents the owners of the city's 475 municipal buses, announced Wednesday that it will end service beginning Monday, May 17. According to the Chamber, the service stoppage is the result of an “economic crisis” due to increasing...
By Kaylee McGhee White A well-respected science writer has published a thoughtful and convincing piece this week that helps confirm what most people with common sense have long believed: Covid-19 wasn’t just randomly discovered in a Chinese wet market; it escaped from...
President-elect Guillermo Lasso’s proposal to use Ecuador’s election system to administer Covid-19 vaccines is being praised by health professionals and politicians. Diana Atamaint, president of the National Election Council said the plan is “workable” and she is...
Martes, 11/5/2021 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Fotografías y obras de artists en dos espacios culturales (Photographs and works by artists in two cultural spaces) - A photo exhibit about the restoration and change of use of the property that...
By Minda Zetlin Malcolm Gladwell believes that the post-Covid world will be a much better and more hopeful place than it was before the pandemic. He explained his reasoning in a thought-provoking talk at last month's virtual Adobe Summit. Gladwell is best known for...
By Tom Metcalfe A grim artifact that had been placed on display for decades in a Georgia university has been authenticated as a human head taken from a slain enemy by an Amazonian warrior almost a century ago — and is now on its way back to where it came from....
The head of one of Latin America’s most prominent business families, Juan Eljuri, died Monday at 78. His death was announced by his brothers Henry and Olga, his sister Gladys and his son, Juan Eljuri, Jr,, all of Cuenca. President Lenin Moreno and President-elect...
By Andres Oppenheimer El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele has a 90 percent popularity rate in his country, perhaps the highest one in the region. But power has gone to his head, and his latest takeover of the Salvadoran justice system threatens to turn him into Latin...
By Karl Sweetman In a recent opinion piece published here on CuencaHighLife, the author complained of being “tired of all the sickness, the anti-science, the hatred and the idiocy.” Well, I’m tired too. I’m tired of baseless insults. I’m tired of attitudes like those...
By Mac Margolis When Colombians voted in a 42-year-old development wonk as president in 2018, they knew it was a leap of faith. But what Ivan Duque lacked in political adroitness (he’d served a single term as a senator), the argument went, he would finesse as an...
Cuenca and much of the southern sierra were drying out Sunday from flooding resulting from heavy rains Friday night and Saturday. The Rios Yanuncay and Tarqui overflowed their banks in several locations, flooding low -lying streets and homes while other neighborhoods...
By Daniel Funke Nearly 150 million Americans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, but some say it may not make much of a difference in limiting the spread of Covid-19. In an article published May 3, LifeSite, which bills itself as “an...
By Holly Strawbridge After being confined to health-food stores for years, gluten-free foods now show up everywhere. Supermarket aisles abound with products proudly labeled “Gluten free,” and many restaurants now offer gluten-free options. For people who can’t...
By Vincent Ricci Women’s rights advocates have hailed a recent court ruling that will ease restrictions on abortion in cases of rape in Ecuador, the latest country in Latin America to be swept up in the “green wave” abortion rights movement. In a 7-2 vote on April 28,...
Minister of Health Camilo Salinas announced Friday that it has negotiated the delivery of millions of additional doses Covid-19 vaccines from pharmaceutical companies in Russia, China and the U.S. He said that CanSino will deliver three million doses of its Ad5-nCoV...
By Cal Montesino In the lush province of Esmeraldas, on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia, farmers are proud to say they produce "black gold." They are not talking about oil, Ecuador's main export, but cocoa beans. The smooth, bitter-tasting paste extracted from...
By Emily Laber-Warren The Sarayaku territory in Ecuador is a 500-square-mile roadless jungle reachable only by helicopter, small aircraft, or a full day’s canoe trip on the Bobonaza River. For outsiders, opportunities to connect with this community of about 1,200...
