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Jueves, 7/12/2017 Hola, Todos - I will be on vacation next week starting on the 15th and getting back to the Periodicos on Jan. 2. Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Escultura - An exhibit of wood sculptures by Gabriel Cabrera opened hoy a las 19:00 in the...
A landslide near a landfill south of Quito has left 600,000 utility customers without drinking water. The landslide occurred late Tuesday night, overwhelming a retaining wall and dumping hundreds of meters of earth into the Rio Pita. The river provides about 25% of...
Cuenca’s Christmas festivities begin in earnest tonight with the Festival de Luces (festival of lights) on Santo Domingo Plazeta, in the historic district. More than 7,000 lanterns will be lit in the annual celebration honoring the coronation of the Virgen Morenica...
The Odebrecht corruption trial against Vice President Jorge Glas and eight others has entered its final phase. On Wednesday, prosecutors and defense attorneys began presenting closing arguments, after which criminal court judges Édgar Flores, Sylvia Sánchez and...
Miércoles, 6/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda event - Magazine launch - The first issue of the Revista Casa Tomada was Wed. in the Pálier Café-Libro in the CCE. The magazine is the project of an Cuencanan group of writers. Upcoming and ongoing...
Text and photos by Fernando Pagés Ruiz After three month’s labors, we finally finished the Cisterna Cottage. So-called, because it sits atop a 300-cubic meter potable water tank that will quench the thirst of seven homes on a point overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Our...
The faction of Alianza País loyal to former president Rafael Correa will not be able to legally oppose the seven questions on President Lenin Moreno’s referendum. The referendum election is scheduled for Sunday, February 4. The National Electoral Council (CNE), the...
Martes, 5/12/2016 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - Libro - Carlos Váconez will present his book of stories, "Jardines Lewis Carrol" (Lewis Carroll Gardens) el viernes a las 18:30 in Pálier Café Libro at the Casa de la Cultura del Ecuador....
For several hours on Monday, air travelers were able to purchase on-line round-trip tickets from Cuenca to Quito for $37. Although deep-discount promotional fares come and go, Latam Airlines said all ticket prices will drop during the month of December. “We are...
By Jack Shenker Shortly after midnight on Friday, 28 January 2011, someone in 26 Ramses Street, a nondescript 12-storey office building in downtown Cairo, turned off Egypt’s internet. No email, web access, WhatsApp or Skype. It didn’t matter. A few hours later,...
Lunes, 4/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Concierto - "Sonidos de Navidad 2017" (Sounds of Christmas, 2017) performed by the Conservatorio Superior José María Rodríguez, will be el martes, 12/12 en el Museo de la Catedral Vieja. Articles...
Early damage assessments from Sunday morning’s 6.0 magnitude coastal earthquake indicate some structural damage, mostly to buildings weakened by the April 2016 earthquake. Officials in Bahía de Caráquez, just south of the quake epicenter, say however, that hundreds of...
Former president Rafael Correa urged his supporters to form a new political movement if they cannot regain control of Alianza País (AP) from members loyal to President Lenin Moreno. The call came during Sunday’s convention of the Correa faction of AP in Esmeraldas. In...
Domingo, 3/12/2017 Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - Pase del Niño - The traditional Pase del Niño starts el lunes, 4/12 "en el" (in the - words to memorize) Museo de las Conceptas (Hermano Miguel 6-33 y Juan Jaramillo). <No, I'm not confused,...
By Robert Bradley To have come to this season, part II. They are stringing the lights for Christmas around Parque Calderon. The blue CUENCA sign across from the Cathedral is a huge hit already. Teens are grouping together in sizes that stretch beyond the limit of a...
A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake, centered 19 kilometers north of Bahia de Caraquez, struck at 6:19 Sunday morning. The quake was shallow, at a depth of 10 kilometers, with the epicenter close to that of the catastrophic April 2016 earthquake that killed hundreds...
Text & photographs by John Keeble A sleek, grey shadow emerged from among the volcanic rock life below the Galápagos waves, hugging the side of a curving wall and slipping past me with an elegance of a superb creature in its element. It was a shark, about a metre...
Former President Rafael Correa said on Friday that it will be several years before he can consider moving back to Ecuador from his wife’s native Belgium, where the family relocated in July after the end of his mandate. Correa, 54, was in Ecuador to take part in...
By Liam Higgins Cuenca's municipal transit authority estimates that more than 500 foreign residents 65 and older purchased pre-paid city bus cards in 2017 at the discounted rate of 12 cents per ride. Full fare is 25 cents. "It's a fabulous deal that proves age has its...
Ecuadorians will go to the polls February 4, 2018 to vote on seven referendum questions that President Lenin Moreno wants answered in the affirmative. Among the questions is one that, if approved, would reverse a constitutional amendment introduced by former president...
