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Editor’s note: This is the fourth in an ongoing series that looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting the lives of Cuencanos and Cuenca expats. By Robert Bradley and Sylvan Hardy A 35-year resident of Cuenca, Karen Kennedy personifies the heroic adventurer who...
By Marcelo Rochabrun and Daniel Ramos Luis Arce, a quiet economist was sworn in as Bolivia’s president on Sunday after a landslide election win, knew where he stood in the political spectrum as a young teenager in La Paz, when he picked up the writings of philosopher...
The restaurant business is a difficult undertaking no matter how you slice it. For the patrons, it is only after the rent, utilities and credit card bills are paid, as well as the other myriad expenses of daily life are set to rest, that they decide it is time to...
Responding to criticism of advertising affixed to several of the Cuenca’s tram units, city officials say the commercial signage is a way to offset operational costs of the system. “It’s a valuable source of revenue that we cannot afford to pass up,” says tram director...
Viernes, 6/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Publicación destaca rol de mujeres "heroicas" (Book highlights roll of "heroic" women <Or, to be politically correct, "sheroic" women>) - Kynku has published "100 mujeres de nuestra historia,...
By Adela Suliman Denmark on Friday defended its decision to kill millions of minks even after the World Health Organization played down fears of a mutated coronavirus strain, whose discovery precipitated the move. "All remaining mink will now be culled including...
The Ministry of Finance said Thursday it has caught up payments to government employees, contractors and the Social Security health system. The new disbursements came courtesy of a $2 billion in loan from the International Monetary Fund. In addition, Finance Minister...
Jueves, 5/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - No hay nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Azogues festeja sola sus 200 años (Azogues celebrates its 200 years alone) - 3 ceremonial events for the Bicentennial of Azogues were held with the vice mayor presiding. The mayor is in...
Royal Caribbean will be looking for volunteer passengers as the company prepares to return its ships to service, Vicki Freed, the senior vice president of sales, trade support and service for the company, said during a webinar this week, Cruise Industry News reported....
The National Police Command says contract killings and gang violence are responsible for a rising number of murders in Ecuador’s coastal region. The command reports that murders nationwide have increased to 914 in 2020 compared to 848 in the same period of 2019, with...
Miércoles, 4/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Nada, nada, nada. Otras cosas - Titular - Alcalde ofrece alta inversión (Mayor offers large investment) - At the Sesión Solemne yesterday, Mayor Pedro Palacios announced an investment of $200,000,000 in public works to...
You might think it’s easy to spot Boobies seemingly everywhere along Ecuador's sun- drenched Pacific beaches and offshore isles, right?! Well, Boobies can be elusive and believe it or not, they’re not as plentiful as they once were. Seems that they’ve enjoyed so much...
Martes, 3/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Horarios especiales en museos (Special hours at museums) - Starting today, the Sistema Municipal de Museos has special hours for the fiestas de Cuenca from 9:00 to 17:00. Enjoy special exhibits and...
By Karla Sánchez Arismendi For the past two years, Joel Munn, a retired ski instructor from Breckenridge, Colorado, has been working non-stop to make a difference in the lives of the poor people on the streets of Cuenca and surrounding communities. He is the founder...
Dry weather and careless agricultural land-clearing are responsible for more than a dozen wildfires in rural areas near Cuenca, the fire department says. Some of the largest fires continued to burn Monday near Turi, San Joaquin, Zona Soldados and in the upper basin of...
Lunes, 2/11/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Otras cosas - Titular - Parque se deteriora (Park deteriorates) - See Monday's CHL article for story. El Día de los Difuntos con pocas visitas al cementerio (All Souls' Day with few visits to the cemetery) - Restrictions on...
By Gustavo Flores-Macías With at least half of United States voters worried about the fairness of the election and the president not conceding if he loses the election, America’s once-exceptional democracy increasingly resembles the political landscape in other parts...
According to area residents, Cuenca’s IctoCruz megapark is in urgent need of maintenance. Opened in March 2019, the 56 hectare park is the largest of the city’s four megaparks, offering a variety of recreational features including bike paths, mountain biking tracks,...
By Akia Rahming I've been living in Ecuador for nearly a year now. While there have been a lot of differences from my home country of the Bahamas, the biggest is definitely the switch in language. While the official language of the Bahamas is English, Ecuador is a...
By Sandee LaMotte and Virginia Langmaid The spread of Covid-19 among members in a household after one person is infected is "common" and occurs quickly after illness onset, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The person...
