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The Consorcio Cuatro Ríos de Cuenca (CCRC), the Spanish company responsible for managing construction of the tranvía, is demanding an additional 487 days to complete the project. CCRC claims that the extra time is needed due to design changes and “economic conflicts”...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Undated agenda events - Revista - Issue 42 of the magazine Historia de Procesos, published by the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar is in circulation and contains academic articles and book reviews. (Better than Ambian.) Mujeres...
Presidential front-runner Lenin Moreno visits Cuenca today, with stops planned at a historic district market and at the Jefferson Pérez Coliseum. Moreno, vice president during President Rafael Correa’s first two terms in office and a member of Correa’s Alianza País...
Ecuador’s National Assembly passed President Rafael Correa’s capital gains tax on “extraordinary” profits on property Tuesday afternoon. The Ley de Plusvalía, intended to curb land speculation that, according to Correa, drives the prices of real estate out of the...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's (Tues.) agenda events - Rock Concert - Baska, Bajo Sueños and Lavadora Blues performed in the parque De La Madre Tues. night. Undated events - Creative careers in crafts - The centro de formación artesanal Cumbe (Cumbe Center...
By Lidija Grozdanic We love experiments in vernacular design and sustainable materials, including this fascinating project from Ecuador. Artisans and architects with the Archquid think-act tank teamed up recently to design and build a colorful, inhabitable cube using...
President Rafael Correa is questioning the information released by U.S. prosecutors in the Odebrecht bribery scandal. “I believe there is a smear campaign against my government being waged by my opponents and I think it is based on incorrect and incomplete information...
When I worked on the staff of my university daily — ah, those many years ago — I was editor of a feature called the “Bitch Box.” There was an actual box in the newspaper office where students could drop their hand-written (how quaint) complaints about anything that...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Happy Boxing Day! Ongoing and undated agenda events - Casa de los Arcos - As part of the Bienal, artist Luis Chenche is showing his work at the Casa de los Arcos with hours from 9-19:00. Bandas de Pueblo - Local and community bands,...
Editor's note: CuencaHighLife reporter Liam Higgins talked recently to a smuggler who transports liquor, televisions, and other products across the Colombian border into Ecuador without paying the 50% to 60% import duties and taxes. The smuggler operates a warehouse...
By Rut Román While growing up in the United States in the 60's, my first encounter with a Library Bus defined my choices in life. At age 57, a tenured Latin American literature professor recently returned to Ecuador, I found myself in the center of the catastrophic...
Despite its raid on Odebrecht offices Friday in Guayaquil, opponents of Ecuador's government claim that the action is little more than a diversion from a long-standing pattern of corruption. Friday's search came days after the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that...
A crowd of more than 100,000 lined Calle Simon Bolivar on Saturday as thousands more rode and marched in Cuenca’s annual Pase del Niño parade. At the head of the processoin, the 193-year-old statue of the Niño Viajero, so-called for his 1962 world tour when he...
Cuenca’s José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, part of Ecuador’s Social Security Institute (IESS) health care system, has received a “Gold” rating by the International Hospital Accreditation Board of Canada. It is the first hospital in Cuenca to earn the distinction. The...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events and a past event - Galería - The Arte Mashca Gallery is opened its spaces to independent artists to show and sell their work. It is located at Luis Cordero 5-48 y Honorato Vásquez. Teatro infantil - The students...
By Sylvan Hardy For tourists and foreign residents, today's Christmas Eve’s Pase del Niño (the Passing of the Child) parade is a colorful and often bizarre mixture of the sacred and the profane. To locals, it’s a time-honored combination of Catholic and indigenous...
By Moira Birss Ecuador became an even more difficult place to be a defender of indigenous rights and the environment in recent days. You would think a country with constitutionally-enshrined protections for Mother Nature would support and encourage indigenous and...
Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht SA’s admission to U.S. prosecutors that it paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to win lucrative infrastructure contracts is reverberating across Latin America, where the company has built some of the region’s biggest...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda events - CCE - The first film ever shown will be commemorated by the CCE which will launch a new magazine, GOD/ART, which specializes in film, on 28/12 at 20:00. Federico Proaño - The school will have Christmas programs...
A magnitude of 4.6 earthquake, centered in a mostly uninhabited area 16 miles east of Salinas, served as a reminder Thursday morning that Ecuador’s south coast is also vulnerable to major seismic events. No injuries or damage was reported from the quake that occurred...
