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By R.S. Gompertz Puno, Peru isn’t pretending to be a tourist town. Puno is a hard-scrabble brick and rebar town hunched like a red condor above Lake Titicaca. The town has a provisional, unfinished frontier outpost feel to it. Puno is not the place to visit for art...
Lunes, 12/8/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - La Casa Municipal de las Posadas - This example of domestic colonial architecture was built as a hotel on the road to Naranjal in the late 1800's for commercial travelers from as far away as Peru....
By B.J. Miller As a hospice and palliative medicine physician, my job is to help reduce suffering. At the end of life, that job becomes especially intense when time is short, when machines and data seem to be taking over, and so many intense emotions surround a body...
By Phil Keating Christy Ayers, her husband, Tom, and their two children came to Miami Beach for her 40th birthday. But when they stepped out to this world-famous beach, the celebrating immediately stopped, right on the sand. "We were shocked when we walked onto the...
Dear Readers, It’s been noticeably cool of late, cold enough for the Canadians and Yankees who live here to agree on something, a rarity unto itself. The mornings are often crystal clear. Bracing even. Beautifully woven alpaca shawls of every hue are luxuriously...
By Susan Burke March Imagine having a three-year-old child and suddenly being told you need to become an expert in diabetes management — and your child’s survival depends on your managing their food, testing their blood sugar, and administering insulin injections...
National Court Judge Daniella Camacho has agreed with Ecuador Attorney General Diana Salazar to order pre-trial detention for former president Rafael Correa in a case involving millions of dollars in contributions to the Alianza Pais campaign fund. In her decision,...
Cuenca’s Amaru Zoo is looking for a good home for 17 African lions. The lions, many of whom are in poor health from lack of food and poor living conditions, were part of a private collection of more than 200 wild animals near Cuenca that was recently disbanded. Amaru...
A 175-hectare (430-acre) section of Colombia’s banana crop has been contaminated with the fusarium R4T fungus, the national agricultural institute said on Thursday, as it called for a countrywide effort to increase sanitary controls to contain the malady. The fungus,...
Once a transit point for Venezuelan refugees headed to Peru, Chile, Brazil and Argentina, new statistics show that Ecuador is increasingly becoming a final destination. In January, only six percent of Venezuelans who entered Ecuador at its northern border with...
Jueves,8/8/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Día de la Cultura - Friday, el 9/8 is the the Day of Culture and 17 of the 37 cultural spaces which make up the network, will have special exhibits. The fair will be headquartered in CIDAP. Taller -...
If you’ve had an infection that required you to take antibiotics, you may have suffered diarrhea, a common side effect. After all, antibiotics eliminate the bad bacteria, but also ‘good’ bacteria, which scientists say cause an imbalance that may lead to gastric...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Culture announced Wednesday that most artistic and cultural products and services will no longer be subject to the country’s 12 percent Value Added Tax (VAT). The exemption applies to music, dance, film and theater projects and performances as...
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered his government's representatives not to travel to Barbados for scheduled talks with the political opposition starting on Thursday, blaming new U.S. sanctions for the impasse. Maduro "has decided to not send the...
By R.S. Gompertz About 20 years ago I told my restless sons a series of bedtime stories about a prince who was reticent to assume his duties. He was expected to become king over a group of islands located at the top of the world, but he was curious about what lay...
Miércoles, 7/8/2019 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De la pagina cultural - Exposición - The Exposición de Identidad Cultural del Azuay opened hoy a las 20:00 at the Seminario San Luis and will run hasta el domingo. The 16 exhibitors are from Sígsig, Chordeleg, Bullcay,...
Ecuador Attorney General Diana Salazar has requested that the court issue a pretrial detention order for former president Rafael Correa in the 2012-2016 Sobornos (Bribes) investigation of payments to the Alianza Pais campaign fund. The request will be considered by a...
The administrator of the renovated San Francisco Plaza says last weekend’s dance exhibitions is the just the beginning of a full schedule of cultural events. Acknowledging criticism of the plaza design and management, Fausto Guillén says he believes the public will...
Following a review of operational expenses for Cuenca’s tram system, the new city government says it is saving thousands of dollars a month by reducing electricity, personnel and legal costs. Mayor Pedro Palacios has set a goal of reducing operational expenses by 50...
By Syvester Grahame The restaurant scene in Cuenca seems as changeable as the weather. What was once the "new hot new spot" is already a fleeting memory. The lights are off and the stove is cold. The Pepper Mill, although it received good reviews, is already gone....
