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Something can beat down on you hard enough until you’re faded, like the sun beats down on fresh paint eventually robbing it of hue and saturation. A life can beat down on you like the sun and rob you of time, satisfaction or happiness. No one is born with any...
Ecuador’s environmental ministry is preparing a plan to eliminate rainbow trout from the country’s high-elevation lakes and rivers and hopes to implement it later this year. The eradication program was prompted by the work of biologists at the University Indoamérica...
Martes, 14/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Bicentennial program - The city will present the program of events and projects to celebrate the bicentennial of the independence of Cuenca el viernes, 24/1 a las 20:00 in the Plaza San Francisco....
By Brad Bosworth I have been in Cuenca since August 2019. I ride my recumbent trike by the river trails and enjoy the cultural vibe of the city, riding the bus and the people. As I am 61 and a relative youngster, I don’t yet qualify yet the adulto mayor benefits. But...
By Valendina Romei With its low birth rate and fast-ageing population, Europe is facing a demographic crisis, one that economists fear could hit growth and public finances. While the global population overall is getting older, Europe is an extreme example of this...
Lunes, 13/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Museo de las Conceptas - The museum will have family activities one sábado each month to share the history of Cuenca by featuring some of the most important pieces in the Museum's collection. On el...
The president of Brazil's Supreme Court authorized Netflix to show a comedy that depicts Jesus as gay after a lower court ordered the streaming service to remove the film from its platform, according to state news agency Agencia Brasil. The Supreme Court's president,...
By Julie Jacobo A Galapagos giant tortoise estimated to be about 130 years old is returning home after having so much sex that he saved his species. Diego, part of the Chelonoidis hoodensis species that lives on the Galapagos island of Española, was one of the...
By Katie Jackson From grocery stores, to high-end restaurants and even fast-food menus, plant-based proteins are popping up everywhere these days. While many of these products were initially celebrated for providing alternative sources of protein to those who cannot,...
Fifteen people were injured Sunday afternoon during a Pase del Niño parade when a flat-bed tow truck lost its brakes and ran over participants and spectators. Five vehicles were also damaged in the accident which occurred on Camino Racar at the intersection with...
Domingo, 12/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Encuentro Nacional de Cultura Funeraria (National Meeting of Funeral Culture) - This conference will be el jueves 23/1 y viernes 24/1 a las 9 -17:00 at the Museo Pumapungo and the Cementerio...
Dear Mother Earth, North America is missing 3.4 billion birds. 3.4 billion birds disappeared and no one noticed the sparrows, blackbirds, wrens, and swallows that didn’t make it, who were never born, who stopped flying or singing or making their ingenious, fragile...
By Jeffrey D. Pugh, Luis F. Jiménez, and Bettina Latuff As a result of its decades-long international conflict, Colombia produced more than seven million displaced persons, a large portion of whom turned south, making Ecuador the largest recipient of refugees and...
Representatives from the U.S. Consulate in Guayaquil will be in Cuenca Wednesday, January 29 to provide passport renewal and notary services. Hours of service will be from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the the Abraham Lincoln Cultural Center on Presidente Borrero at Honorato...
The campaign to eliminate graffiti from Cuenca's historic district is off to an impressive start and organizers and volunteers gathered Thursday at the Inca Bar and Lounge to celebrate early accomplishments and to learn what comes next. In addition to 70 Keep Cuenca...
We have devalued the word “awesome” to mean something between good and great. If a perfect pizza or clever Netflix series is now “awesome,” witnessing tens of thousands of Canadian monarch butterflies fluttering among the pines of the Mexican state of Michoacán is...
Twenty years ago this week, Ecuador abandoned its national currency, the sucre, and switched to the U.S. dollar. The change resulted from an economic crisis that saw the collapse of dozens of banks, high unemployment and an inflation rate approaching 100 percent. “We...
Four members of the National Assembly have left Ecuador for Mexico where they have been granted political asylum. The Foreign Ministry confirmed Thursday that the group, aligned with the Citizen Revolution and supporters of former president Rafael Correa, left the...
Jueves, 9/1/2020 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - 13 artists from the Academia de Arte Alvarado have an exhibition at the Virgen de Bronce. The artists visited churches and painted what they were inspired by. Del cuerpo del periodico -...
I’m not going to write about what were the top food trends in 2019 since they’re mostly irrelevant to me. [All the “top” lists include imitation meat, like the Impossible Burger. Why would I want to eat imitation anything? There’s plenty of real food around, why would...
