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Ecuador’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Friday that all immigration services to foreigners will be relocated to the Azogues office by the end of year. Currently, residency visas are processed in Azogues but short-term visas and other foreigner services are...
City and business officials met Friday with executives of Avianca and say they are highly optimistic that the Colombian-based airline will establish service to Cuenca. Currently, Avianca serves Quito, Guayaquil and the Galapagos Islands, and is looking to expand its...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's agenda events - Reading - "La Casa Encantada" (The Enchanted House) project, directed to children, and which combines play with reading, was at 10:00 in the "Pedro Páramo" bookstore. Festival Eurocine - "Fátima", a story about a...
By Liam Higgins Although few U.S. viewers of Monday’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have any memory of Alicia Machado, most Latin Americans do. Hillary Clinton brought up Machado near the end of the debate, claiming that Trump had...
In a pilot project to evaluate feasibility, some trucks that deliver LP gas tanks to homes and businesses will use music instead of horns to alert customers. The project begins in October and continues until the end of the year. The project has been ordered by the...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Today's (Jueves) agenda events - Exposición fotográfica - Cuencana photographer Gabriela Parra opened her photo exhibit "Ánima" Thurs. in the Vestíbulo of the Teatro de la Casa de la Cultura (Luis Cordero y Pres. Córdova) Sinfónica -...
In a surprise move, OPEC members agreed to cut oil production at its meeting Wednesday in Algeria. Ecuador, which had pushed for a larger reduction, said it was pleased with the decision and said higher oil prices will benefit its struggling economy. OPEC’s decision...
You just know it — that new country you’ve got all picked out for your new expat life is going to be THE ONE. Heck, you’ve probably done so much research that you’re already visualizing yourself there; walking through the streets, chatting with the locals, trying out...
Hola, Todos - ¡Miércoles! (That's your word for the day to be explained below.) Sorry about yesterday's non-issue. If you're aggravated at not receiving it, think about how I feel after working on it for 2 hours and finding out the only thing to go thru was a few...
Former Vice President Lenin Moreno received a hero’s welcome when he flew into Quito from Switzerland Tuesday morning. He is in town to attend Saturday’s presidential nominating convention of the Alianza País party. Widely expected to be the País presidential...
Have you taken an Ecuadorian bus lately? I'm not talking the local 12 to the market in Cuenca, but an inter-provincial, long-distance bus that goes where the weather’s hot. As many things seem to go for me in Ecuador, I have fully cycled through the emotional range of...
Ecuador could see its annual spending of $120 million to manage the border with Colombia fall by as much as 80 percent with the advent of peace in the neighboring country, President Rafael Correa said Monday. The Ecuadorian government currently has some 11,000 troops...
Hundreds of condo owners, including many foreigners, could be in for a shock as Ecuador’s Ministry of Housing decides which buildings damaged in the April 16 earthquake must be torn down. Owners in at least five condominium projects in Bahia de Caraquez have...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming agenda event - "Noche de Shungo" - This event will be on Sat, 1/10 from 11-23:00 in the Museo Pumapungo and will include dance, music, theater, art, painting, a Food Fair and DJs. Free. Articles about - Mancomunidad Cultural...
Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute of Ecuador reported Sunday that seismic activity inside the Tungurahua Volcano, near Ambato, continues to build and that an eruption is possible within a matter of days or weeks The institute says that earthquakes recorded near the...
It is a conflict that lasted over five decades. An estimated 220,000 people killed. Five million displaced. These staggering figures will by consigned to history Monday as the Colombian government buries the hatchet with its long-time nemesis, the Marxist...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Ongoing agenda item - La Fundación Un Buen Cosejo (Good Advise Foundation) - The foundation is providing counseling and a guide for finding solutions to your personal problems. (You mean you can't find it at the bottom of a bottle of...
By Ramiro Crespo On September 13, a political science student published an opinion column in government newspaper El Telégrafo on “The Art (or Science) of Disqualifying Democracies (Part I).” As of this week, the article had been viewed close to 77,000 times, a high...
Ecuador’s Internal Revenue Service (SRI) says it is up to date on VAT tax refunds to 680,000 elderly and disabled tax payers. The SRI said it was as much as nine months behind on some refunds. SRI director Paola Hidalgo said that some of the refunds were owed since...
By Scarlett Braden I spearheaded a project to let authors and writers do what they do best to help the rebuilding efforts following the April earthquake. The project is called Friends in Foreign Places: An Expat Anthology and though it began as a Cuenca writer’s...
