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The barricades around Parque Calderon were pushed aside early Monday morning and, for the first time in almost two weeks pedestrian and vehicular traffic moved freely around the park. “We are once again resuming our normal lives,” Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said in a...
The government says it knows who is responsible for the violence that resulted in several deaths and hundreds of injuries during last weekend's indigenous protests in Quito: They are the followers of former president Rafael Correa. On Monday, National Police made four...
Lunes, 14/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Festival de Artesanías - The Inauguration of the XVII edition of CIDAP's Festival of American Crafts will be el 31/10 with the opening of the Mexican pavillion. Mexico is this year's featured...
By Susan Burke March The Journal of Wild Mushrooming is a fascinating resource for all things mushrooms. They say there are 10,000 described species in North American alone, but that may represent only a third to a fifth of what’s really out there! In percentages, 50%...
When Ned Meisner moved Cuenca in March 2019 he had already made several exploratory trips to learn about Ecuador and the role that Rotary International was playing in the country. After working with Rotary for over 10 years worldwide, he saw Ecuador as a place where a...
By Charlotte Mitchell Walk into any tourist shop in Bolivia and alongside postcards of colonial cathedrals and mist over the moonlit desert, you will see him. Evo Morales, with his shock of black hair and brightly embroidered jackets and ponchos, has ruled the...
Although indigenous leaders have called off their national strike, a return to normal routines in Cuenca may take several days. “We are very happy that we have reached an agreement but we must be realistic in the amount of time it will take to resume our normal...
The leaders of Ecuador’s indigenous community announced Sunday night that they are ending the 12-day strike that has paralyzed the country with protests and roadblocks. The decision came after President Lenín Moreno said he was withdrawing his plan to eliminate...
By Jeremiah Reardon Ecuador has come to a halt with "The Strike." Road blockades stop traffic around the country due to sharp price increases for fuel. Drivers of taxis, city buses, and other kinds of public transport walked off the job and paralyzed transport of...
Following two days of street protests in Quito, the government and protesting groups agreed to meet Sunday afternoon in an attempt to end 10 days of often violent confrontations. The talks will be mediated by officials from the United Nations and the Catholic church...
The good news for Cuencanos is that the city received new shipments of propane gas. The bad news is that it wasn't enough and sold out within hours of going on sale. Officials say that more is en route. Half a dozen gas tankers arrived early Saturday morning, part of...
By Michael Bartiromo And we thought mustard ice cream was a stretch. An ice cream vendor in Ecuador is reportedly seeing demand for her new — and arguably strangest — offering. It's made using the flesh of guinea pigs. Guinea pig meat, known as “cuy” in Ecuador, is...
Cuenca garbage trucks will roll again Friday night as scheduled pick-ups resume. The announcement followed negotiations by Mayor Pedro Palacios with residents of the Santa Ana parish who have maintained a blockade of the road to the city landfill in Pichacay....
David Morales, the owner of the Spanish security company that was in charge of protecting the Ecuadorian embassy in London while Julian Assange was living there, has been arrested and released on bail, judicial sources have told the Spanish newspaper EL PAÍS. The...
Hundreds of city workers and volunteers cleaned historic district streets and sidewalks Thursday morning, washing away most of the evidence of Wednesday’s mass protests. The volunteers, most of them from the Universities of Cuenca and Azuay, worked with city cleaning...
The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities (Conaie) announced Thursday that it would not join negotiations with the government until three conditions are met. Conaie, Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization, criticized other indigenous and campesino organizations...
By Mark Bradbury My beautiful country of Ecuador is in turmoil, not in shambles as some would have you believe, but we are definitely going through some very trying times right now. For over 40 years, Ecuador has been subsidizing gasoline and diesel fuels, propane gas...
Jueves, 10/10/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Effects on museums and cultural venues - Museums are closed with employees working behind closed doors and via the internet. The OSC has suspended the Festival Viva Viladi (sic). It is rehearsing...
By Mark Mahoney As societal pressures ramp on a daily basis, our states of mind and outlook on life are tempered by many factors. A new decades-long epidemiologic research study identifies a strong correlational (not causal) association between optimism and...
Cuenca Mayor Pedro Palacios said city government will be open for business on Thursday, a day after a nationwide strike led to violent clashes between protesters and police in the historic district. In addition to the strike, Wednesday was a national holiday honoring...
