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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...
Police estimate that as many as 7,000 Cuencanos, tourists and expats turned out for Thursday’s “Noche de los Compadres” at Parque Calderon, to listen to music, watch dances, and slime each other with aerosol foam. The event marks the beginning of the Carnaval...
Only two days after the election commission officially announced the April 2 runoff, both of Ecuador’s presidential candidates were claiming that the opposition was playing dirty. Even president President Rafael Correa got into the act, suggesting he may invoke a...
Hola, Todos - Sorry for the non-issue yesterday. I think it has something to do with putting the computer into sleep mode or letting it turn itself off so I do something else for a while. When I turn it back on, I get little blue message flags about something's...
Three landslides shut down travel between Cuenca and Guayaquil Wednesday. The slides followed heavy rainfall that is also causing problems on Highway 35 in Cañar and Chimboroza Provinces. The Ministry of Transportation and Public Works said that two of the three...
While public attention has been riveted to the presidential race since Sunday, voting results also show that Ecuadorians have overwhelmingly approved a referendum to bar politicians and civil servants from having assets, companies or capital in tax havens. With almost...
As Cuencanos celebrate the beginning of the long Carnaval weekend tonight in Paruqe Calderon, old-timers recall a time when the event was much more important in the social life of Cuenca. They also remember it not just as time for fun, but also of violence and...
By Magdalena Herreshoff My husband Daniel and I are artists. He is a jazz and blues piano player and I am a poet. We met Johnny Jara Jaramillo in the first year of retirement to Ecuador in 2011. A friend of ours had a love affair with him and she introduced him to us...
Although votes are still being counted, the influence of President Rafael Correa’s Alianza País party will be greatly reduced when new members take their seats in April. Alianza, which currently holds 100 of the 137 assembly seats, will have between 67 and 76 seats in...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Tuesday's agenda event - Martes de cine - The Alianza Francesa's Tuesday Movie was "Augustine" with Spanish subtitles. Articles about - Museo Landívar - The house whose first floor houses a museum is in need of structural repair. (The...
It’s official: Lenin Moreno and Guillermo Lasso will face off in a presidential runoff election April 2. The announcement was made Tuesday by Juan Pablo Pozo, president of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE), at a hastily called Quito press conference. It was...
The decision by Ecuador’s election commission to delay release of presidential voting results has put the country’s police and military on high alert for possible civil unrest. In Quito and Guayaquil, police are separating demonstrators, that sometimes number in the...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming and ongoing agenda events - Música - There will be vintage soul este martes y miércoles at 20:00 in the sala "Alfonso Carrasco" in the CCE (Luis Cordero y Pres. Córdova). The concert will be an ensemble with violin, piano,...
