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Alistan tres festivales de cometas - As a goodbye to school vacation, Cuenca will hold 3 kite festivals on the last Sundays of August. The EBS Gestores Culturales organization will hold the first event, "Tiempo de Cometas Verano 2025" in the Parque El Paraíso on...
It’s one of those mild Cuenca afternoons when the rain has decided to wait politely in the wings. I mount the back seat of a Hyundai Creta, one of those compact SUVs that tries to look muscular, but still has the heart and soul of a weak and feeble hatchback. My...
AMERICAN CITIZEN SERVICES IN THE CITY OF CUENCA August 28 and 29, 2025 The U.S. Consulate General in Guayaquil is pleased to announce that representatives from the Consulate will provide notarial, passport and CRBA services in Cuenca on August 28 and 29, 2025....
By a wide margin, Ecuadorians do not support President Daniel Noboa in his attack on the Constitutional Court. According to a survey conducted on four social media platforms, 63% of respondents described the president’s Tuesday protest march on the court as...
Cuenca and Quito have the largest populations of U.S. expats, according to a study by Vistazo magazine and website and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other cities with “significant concentrations” of American foreign residents include Cotacachi, Loja, Manta,...
By Jeff Van Pelt Rowan Beckett sat in the same seat every morning — the wobbly plastic chair in front of Panadería San José, the one with the crack in the backrest. He didn’t come for the coffee (burnt, watery) or the bread (too sweet, no crust worth a damn). He came...
By Jonathan Mason When the Jeffrey Epstein case exploded into the headlines, it shocked the world: a billionaire with an alleged network of powerful friends, accused of systematically exploiting underage girls for years. The public was rightly outraged. But as someone...
In his Tuesday visit to Cuenca, President Daniel Noboa predicted a new technology center in the Ricaurte parish would become a high-tech magnet for research and development, attracting national and international firms. Called a “technological free trade zone,”...
Grief doesn’t wait for the right time. It doesn’t care if you’ve just started over in a new country, finally found your rhythm, or settled into the life you worked hard to create. It arrives uninvited - through a late-night message, an unexpected call, or a silence...
This article is part of “Facelift Ecuador: Share Your Positive Story!“, an initiative to publish positive articles from CuencaHighLife readers. If you would like to submit your story, click here. By Caramel Topping A face lift, medically known as a rhytidectomy, is a...
The Pan American highway south of Cuenca reopened Tuesday night following a day-long closure by protesters of the proposed Loma Larga gold mine. Residents near the mine’s location in Kimsacocha were joined by leaders of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities...
The Constitutional Court on Tuesday issued a statement warning of government “actions that compromise its institutional security." Specifically, the judges complained that government workers had removed a perimeter fence outside the court building and posted soldiers...
Gentrificación, Cuenca tiene los 'sintomas' - For many, this can be an incomprehensible word of minor importance. However, Cuenca is feeling this phenomena and should start talking about it seriously. What it is, is a process in which certain neighborhoods, usually...
By Maria Abi-Habib President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico rejected the use of U.S. military forces in her country on Friday, responding to news that President Trump had directed the Pentagon to target drug cartels that the United States considers terrorist...
President Daniel Noboa will lead a march on the Constitutional Court Tuesday but it is uncertain what he hopes to accomplish. The march, a protest against the court’s decision to suspend key provisions of three recently passes anti-crime laws, will begin at 11 a.m. at...
By Michael Rios He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug trade plaguing the country. “Yes, I’m part of the...
By Stacey Colino As the adage goes, timing is everything—and that may be true when it comes to eating as much as anything else in life. If you want to feel and function at your best, the timing of your food choices could make a difference. The topic has been gaining...
In England in the early 1960s, my parents were fiercely loyal to Sainsbury’s pork sausages. This was before Sainsbury's was a supermarket, and you had to get in line at each counter. They swore they had “a bit of extra taste,” and for all I know, they were right....
The Azuay Bar Association wants the Loma Larga mining project permanently suspended. “According to the constitution, residents living near proposed mining developments have the right to prior consultation and in the case of Loma Larga, this was not provided by the...
The Constitutional Court announced Saturday that it will hear nine lawsuits against the Organic Law of Public Integrity, two against the National Solidarity Law and one against the Organic Law of Intelligence. The decision means the court’s earlier order to suspend...
