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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...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Exposición - An exhibit by Jorge Chalco, "Yasuní: El paraíso de los contrastes" (Yasuní: The paradise of contrasts), will open el jueves, 30 de marzo in the Exhibit Halls in the Museo de la Ciudad. ...
Lenin Moreno’s campaign strategy is clear: emphasize the social and infrastructure progress Ecuador has made in the last 10 years but, at the same time, make the case that his presidency will have a different personality than President Rafael Correa’s. “Look at what...
Hola, Todos - More confusion for those of us who can't remember what day it is without consulting our phones. I am translating the Saturday paper because the Sunday paper didn't get delivered. Pagina cultural - Libros recomendados de la semana (book recommendations...
The first poll since the February 19 election gives Guillermo Lasso a 52.1% to $47.9% edge over Lenin Moreno in Ecuador’s presidential race. The poll also shows that 19% of voters are undecided. The poll was conducted by Cedatos Febraury 23 and 24 and has a 3.4% error...
The first thing Guillermo Lasso will do if he is elected president is to declare a fiscal emergency and begin cutting Ecuador’s national budget. The second thing he will do is to call a national referendum to limit term limits to elected office, especially the...
Grandpa died the day after Valentine’s Day, at 9:10 a.m. on a sunny morning. He just stopped breathing and went peacefully where he belonged. Cancer had taken him over. He was never a grumpy person; he was always laughing, telling jokes, and playing tricks on...
By Minneapolis Star-Tribune Editorial Staff A frosty reception in sunny Mexico City awaited U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Wednesday, as they met with Mexican officials to talk about the implementation of the Trump...
Juan Pablo Pozo, president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), said Friday that his job is to maintain the public trust, not to please political parties. Pozo was criticized Wednesday and Thursday by representatives of Alianza País, the party representing...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's (Fri.) agenda events - Music festival - Groove Hunters and Mayu (Paseo 3 de Noviembre y Puente Juana de Oro) presented a musical festival Fri. with two ambiances: the first is carioca, jello-shots and beer pong (I'm sorry, but...
Mexico insists that it will not accept citizens of other Latin American countries deported by the U.S. The warning followed a statement earlier in the week from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that it planned to send undocumented aliens from other Central and...
