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Ecuadorian government officials say that a 19-year-old New York high school student who's facing deportation was never involved in gang activity in his native country. That was the reason U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied Diego Ismael Puma Macancela's...
By Robert Bradley There is something endearing about seeing eight-year-old boys all dressed up in their Sunday best for church. Unlike little girls who tip the cuteness scale almost sideways, boys seem to be competing whether they or their clothes will grow up first....
By Andrés Oppenheimer Hurrah! U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has come to Miami to meet with Central American and Mexican authorities in a rare moment of Trump administration attention to Latin America. Now there are several things he could do to dispel the...
Less than a month after assuming the presidency, Lenin Moreno receives a 68 percent approval rating in a poll taken of the country’s top leaders. Only Guayaquil Mayor Jaime Nebot received higher marks, at 68.8 percent. The Perfiles de Opinión poll, on the other hand,...
By Irene Caselli Dressed in a red poncho and traditional hat, Mariano Atupana stands out among the medical staff at the hospital in Riobamba. But it is not just his dress that makes him different. Mr Atupana is a yachak, a medicine man, who uses burning candles and...
By James Heflin Mindee Goodrum, a School for International Studies (SIT) student, has tracked down a new frog species in Ecuador, bringing to three the number of new species and potential species identified by SIT students over the past year. Another student on the...
President Lenin Moreno has issued a pardon to Patricio Marcelo Meza, an environmentalist arrested and jailed in August 2015 during an anti-mining protest in Puyo. Referring to a demand from the indigenous organization Conaie for the release and pardons of 177...
The Galápagos Governing Council is adding three new requirements for visitors to the islands. According to the council, the rules are needed to strengthen environmental controls. Under the new requirements, all non-residents entering the islands must show: — a return...
I apologize in advance for the rant but today I’m just fed up. Sometimes I can’t help myself. From least worst to worst worst foods ever manufactured, here are the four manufactured foods that have no place in a healthy diet. #4: Ramen noodles Recently, while...
President Juan Santos has rejected a suggestion by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that Colombia resume aerial spraying of herbicides to control the explosive increase of coca and poppies production. Santos said that his country discontinued the practice in 2015...
Police and federal prosecutors raided the offices of Quito’s Metro train project Wednesday afternoon as part of the widening Odebrecht corruption scandal. Odebrecht, the giant Brazilian construction company, was awarded several contracts in the early stages of the...
Former president Rafael Correa is intensifying his criticism of the government of new President Lenin Moreno, warning that a “lack of discipline” within the Alianza País party undermines its original objectives. Among the ex-president’s latest claims is that the...
Leaders of Ecuador’s largest indigenous organization is demanding the government pardon and release 177 activists who are serving jail time for acts committed during protests. The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) has given the government...
Ecuador’s Ministry of Transport and Public Works (MTOP) began talks with Cuenca business and city government officials on Monday to plan the resumption of Tame Airlines flights between Cuenca and Guayaquil. Tame is owned by the Ecuadorian government. Last week, MTOP...
From a spare, second-floor office in Queens, an outpost of the Ecuadorian government offers English classes, computer training and after-school programs to immigrants building new lives in New York City. But these days, the office’s busiest program works in the...
By Jeremy Kryt Cartels are getting their swagger back in Colombia, drug-war violence is skyrocketing in Mexico, Central American countries like El Salvador and Honduras are now saddled with some of the highest homicide rates in the world, and parts of Brazil are open...
A judge has ordered that ETAPA general manager Iván Palacio be held in “preventive detention” as a pretrial investigation continues into allegations that he awarded a $10 million water project contract to his relatives. ETAPA, a Cuenca public utility company, manages...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events Taller-laboratorio - A workshop-lab on Viewpoints given by Anne Bogart will be tomorrow in the Cento Cultural La Guarida. Cost: $60.00. <Gee, I always thought having a viewpoint was free even though it might...
It’s been a year since Cuenca’s new animal protection ordinance went into effect but critics say few of the formal complaints are being investigated. Of the 238 complaints filed by the public, legal action has been taken on only eight cases while the rest have been...
The Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has provided dental care to 51,110 Cuenca patients since the beginning of the year and administrators estimate the total will top 130,000 by the end of 2017. In a program started in January, the 47 dentists and dental technicians...
