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Another celebration has come and gone. It is seen as the founding of Cuenca but in reality it was the renaming of this city by the Spanish on April 12, 1557. The city had been around in various forms for more than 3,000 years being in an ideal location in a bowl with...
Correa y el candidato presidencial democrático de los EE.UU., Bernie Sanders, compartirán escenario hoy en un seminario sobre la justicia social y los derechos de los trabajadores en la Ciudad del Vaticano. El candidato presidencial demócrata, el senador Bernie...
Will President Rafael Correa “feel the Bern”? Correa and U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will share the stage today at a seminar about social justice and the rights of workers at Vatican City. Correa arrived in Rome Thursday morning following a...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Upcoming stuff - Revista (magazine - your word for the day) - about El Cajas with previously unpublished fotos of the park is available today. Cost: $3.00. You can buy it with your El Mercurio. (I know, I know - you don't buy the...
Un día después de que el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) diese a conocer su pronóstico económico mundial para el 2016, el consejero de Política Económica de Ecuador afirmó que las predicciones del FMI casi siempre están mal. "Ellos nunca lo hacen bien", dijo...
A Chinese company plans to open a chain of coffee shops throughout China using Ecuadorian coffee. Inkalab says it will build its brand based on the successful Starbucks business model. Inkalab announced last week that it will buy several varieties of Ecuadorian coffee...
Hola, Todos - I think it's time for another reminder about these translations. If it's about an event, sale, job, etc - I translate all pertinent information. I do not hold out on you, and I resent the implication that I don't give you complete information. If you...
A day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its world economic forecast for 2016, Ecuador’s Minister of Economic Policy claimed that IMF predictions are almost always wrong. “They never get it right,” said Patricio Rivera, suggesting that the IMF annual...
La policía detuvo durante este fin de semana a 52 personas por conducir borrachos, incluidos extranjeros que estaban de vacaciones. Los policías municipales dijeron que realizaron 52 detenciones por conducir ebrios durante este puente que duro cuatro días. La mayoría...
Municipal police say they made 52 drunk-driving arrests over the four-day holiday weekend. Most of the arrests came during breathalyzer checks on Calle Larga, 12 de Abril and Remigio Crespo. Four of the arrests were of foreign citizens, two of legal residents....
In its latest report on the global economy, the International Monetary Fund confirms what most Ecuadorians already know. The economy is in a deep recession. The IMF predicts that that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.5% in 2016 and 4.3% in...
Editor's note: Rob Gray's life-long passion for gardening led him from California, to Costa Rica and finally to Ecuador's fertile Yunguilla Valley, where he established Gran Roca farm. This is the first in a series of articles by Rob about his quest to produce the...
Hola, Todos - Tuesday's special foundation of Cuenca issue is a fat 5 section paper with 54 pages instead of the normal 3 section, 22-24 page paper. Section D has articles about maiz (corn - your word for the day, and all of you should know that already.) and food,...
Cuenca recibió su nombre actual hace 459 años, tal día como hoy, cuando el Virrey del Perú y el Marqués de Cañete, Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, cambiara el nombre de la ciudad por el nombre de una ciudad española, Cuenca. Antes de cambiarle el nombre de la ciudad...
Cuenca received its current name 459 years ago today when the Viceroy of Peru and Marquess of Canete, Andres Hurtado de Mendoza, ordered the city renamed for his Spanish hometown. At the time of its Spanish founding in 1556, Cuenca bore the temporary name of Santa Ana...
Demanding changes to the plan to renovate Cuenca’s San Francisco Square, some of the 128 merchants who currently occupy the square staged a sit-in Monday at the municipal building on Parque Calderon. The protesters' main demand is that the sales kiosks in the new plan...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Música y Cine - at the Planetarium in Parque de la Madre at 19:00 to Thu, 14/4. (I have a feeling all the events are listed in the schedule of festivies which I haven't got.) Articles about - El Avispero Collective - has become an...
Un estudio muestra que en el 70% de los robos que se realizan en Ecuador, los ladrones huyeron en moto. Aunque el gobierno no lleva las estadísticas oficiales sobre los métodos de escapada de los criminales, un estudio reciente demuestra que tienen una preferencia...
Although the government does not keep official statistics about the get-away methods criminals use following robberies, a recent study shows they have an overwhelming preference. It’s by motorcycle. Following a review of hundreds of robbery crime reports, Ecuador’s...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Articles about - Cuenca's full cultural schedule for the April fiestas. Some events are: Mon, 11/4 - Awards ceremony for Comaniejos, winner of the Festival del Pasillo - Pumapungo - 20:00. Thu, 14/4 - Festival del Teatro - childrens'...
