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Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Cine en la Mochila (Film in a Backpack) - The Festival de Cine Itinerante (all cognates, all yours) opened Mon. at 16:00 in the Alianza Francesa (Tadeo Torres y Solano) with "El Gran Sadini." Tuesday's film is L...
Cuenca’s rivers are flowing at seasonal levels following a prolonged drought that reduced them to a trickle in November and December. More important says meteorologists, the city has escaped the deadly floods suffered in other areas of the sierra and on the coast. “We...
Ecuador’s presidential candidates are promising gifts to voters they probably can’t deliver on, according to political analysts. Both Lenin Moreno (Alianza País) and Guillermo Lasso (Creo) say they will create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, 800,000 and one...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - "El Observatorio de Ciudadano de la Comunicación" (The Citizens' Observer of Communication) - The VIII Communication Salon will open, and the book, "Observatorio Ciudadano de la Comunicación" will be...
Ecuador moved to second place in 2016 among Latin America countries for lowest homicide rate and officials say the numbers will be even better in 2017. The country’s reported 5.5 murders for per 100,000 inhabitants last year, trailing only Chile, with 3.3, for lowest...
It will be called the Ruta Colonial, or Colonial Route, and its sponsors at Colombia’s largest tourism exposition believe it is travel package that will attract thousands of foreign visitors. Intended to showcase Colombia’s and Ecuador’s most impressive historical...
In its annual report to Congress on international drug trafficking, the U.S. State Department says that Ecuador and other South American Andean countries should increase efforts to combat the growing and transport of drugs. The report acknowledged that Ecuador is not...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Special page dedicated to the Museo Remigio Crespo Toral - The newly restored museum will have its grand opening in marzo. From street level at Calle Larga, you see 2 levels, but there are another 3 that step down to the Tomebamba. The...
By Amy E. Robertson In Latin America, Lent is full of elaborate Catholic rituals, from palm weavings and sawdust carpets to processions of robed penitents. But only in Ecuador will you find fanesca, the equally elaborate Lenten soup. "Fanesca is a traditional...
With early polls showing Guillermo Lasso leading Lenin Moreno, leaders of Alianza País (AP), the political movement founded by President Rafael Correa, are for the first time talking about what happens if the party loses the presidency. National Assemblywoman Doris...
Members of Cuenca’s city council are working with university, church and government officials to develop a public information campaign about the city’s new Environmental Noise Control Ordinance. They are also determining a fine schedule for violators and details of...
The brother of former Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós, assassinated shortly after his election in 1981, has demanded that President Rafael Correa quit using pictures of Roldós for political purposes. On Saturday, Correa included an image of Roldós during his weekly...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Solitary George - In consideration of George's status as the last of his species, Geochelone Elephatopus Abingoni (Chelonoidis nigra abingdoni) (the parenthesis are the paper's. Both of those are...
People are people no matter where you go. Even though some customs, languages, skin colors, dress and religions are different, we are the same. We enter and leave this world in the same manner. We have the same kind of emotions across the world; some are sad, some...
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has released the rules for the presidential runoff election and announced that the campaign officially begins March 10 and ends March 31. The election is Sunday, April 2. Although the final vote count from the February 19 election...
Although the new trade agreement with the European Union is good news for Ecuadorian consumers, it presents a big challenge for Ecuador’s liquor producers. Nowhere is the challenge greater than in Cuenca, the center of the country’s distilling industry. The city's...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Exhibit - A show called "Orillas" (Banks, shores, edges, borders and more. Take your pick or picks.) by painter Ariel Dawi will open jueves a las 19:00 in the Museo de Arte Moderno. Articles about -...
By Nick Miroff Ecuador will elect a new president April 2, and poll results are not looking good for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. According to a Feb. 23-24 survey of 2,834 Ecuadorans by the Cedatos polling agency, right-wing challenger Guillermo Lasso is leading...
An attorney familiar with the January death of an Italian expat in Malacatos in Loja Province, says his death was a suicide, not the results of injuries suffered during a home invasion. Mauro Burzio, an Italian writer, photographer and anthropologist, died January 23...
By Deke Castleman Quick: Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb? How long was the Hundred Years War? The Canary Islands are named after what animal? And what country do Panama hats come from? If you answered General Ulysses S. and his wife Julia, 116 years, the dog, and...
