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By Liam Higgins Although Wednesday’s National Assembly agenda issue was the appointment of new members of the Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control (CPCCS), the attention of legislators was dominated by charges and counter-charges between the assembly...
Miércoles, 28/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Library opening - La Unidad Educativa La Asunción (Asunción School) opened a library/playroom Wednesday. Taller - Wednesday CIDAP and the Japanese Embassy presented the latest in the cycle of...
By Matthew Hayes The tragic death of two teenagers from north of Cuenca who tried to stow away on a Latam jet bound for the U.S. draws attention to the privileged mobility of North Americans relocating to Ecuador — some of whom have commented on these deaths in ways...
The 2018 flu season is still hitting North Americans hard. At least 22 children died from the virus between Feb. 4 and Feb. 10, bringing the total as of Feb. 26 to 85, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They report “during week 7 (Feb. 11-17)...
They were high school students who dreamed of moving to the U.S. to work. Instead, the bodies of Marco Pichasaca and Luis Chimbo, aged 17 and 16, will be delivered to their grieving families in Cañar Province for burial. The boys were cousins, their homes less than...
I was a rebel in high school. The year was 1970 and Virginia Beach had largely avoided the upheavals of the 1960s, but we were making up for lost time. We grew our hair long, wore tattered jeans with American flags sewn on the butt, and talked in lingo: a cool guy was...
Martes, 27/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - CCE - The CCE presented its annual report Tuesday in the Sala de Conciertos. <That must have been a thrilling event.> Upcoming agenda events - Theater - "Del Budismo al casos...del caos al...
Bus service on most interprovincial bus routes was expect to resume today but transport companies say it could be several days before all routes are serviced. The companies say the strike was limited to 24 hours and that some progress had been made in negotiations...
By Liam Higgins Ecuador’s attorney general Carlos Baca says that the president of the National Assembly and a former national comptroller living in exile in Miami are out to get him. On Monday, he released an audio tape of a telephone conversation that appears to...
The bodies of two men were recovered Monday morning at the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport after an airport employee reported seeing objects falling from a Latam jet during takeoff. Law enforcement officials say the men, believed to be Peruvian, fell from the...
Lunes, 26/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Past agenda event - Viernes Cultural Salesiano - The Cultural Friday night at the UPS (Universidad Politécnica Salesiana) featured Profecía and Apocalipsis and was a success. Articles about - CCE - To comply with the...
By Philip Goff In the past 40 or so years, a strange fact about our Universe gradually made itself known to scientists: the laws of physics, and the initial conditions of our Universe, are fine-tuned for the possibility of life. It turns out that, for life to be...
By Karla Betania Sánchez Arismendi Approximately 200 Muslims, most of them from Pakistan, get together to pray every Friday in a mosque at Calle Larga and Benigno Malo in Cuenca. “We want to show that our culture is not what some people think. Our religion promotes...
By Liam Higgins With the results of the popular referendum in the books, Ecuador’s political parties are turning their attention the 2019 provincial, municipal and parochial elections. The elections take on added importance due to the number of mayors and provincial...
Domingo, 25/2/2018 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Artistic presentations - There will be a presentation of arts based on the body, movement, and music <Why does this sound like pole dancing? Or do I just have a dirty mind?>...
I was 12 and on my first "date" with my next-door neighbor. Her name was Cindy Oksanen and she was 13. We were at the drive-in, in the back seat of her dad's station wagon. He was in the front seat. So, obviously having my arm around her was about as brave as I...
Ecuador says the country's latest efforts to negotiate the departure of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed. Foreign minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa said the UK was unwilling to take part in talks about his release. A UK Foreign...
By Sylvan Hardy Had it not been for a handful of 1829 battlefield decisions, Cuenca could well have been a Peruvian city today. Historians say the outcome of the Battle of Portete de Tarqui could have gone either way. On Friday and Saturday, Ecuador's victory at...
Text and Photos by Bartley D’Alfonso It was an outdoor concert of classical music depicting the battle sounds of war, commemorating a historic battle between the forces of Gran Colombia, which included Ecuador, and Perú, 189 years ago on February 27, 1829. The concert...
A week after launching one cryptocurrency, Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro has announced a second. PetroGold, which Maduro says will be backed by gold, will join the Petro, which is allegedly backed by oil. In a televised speech, Maduro said PetroGold is coming...
