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By Christopher Lux "About twenty years ago, I was in Brazil," recalls singer Sting about his first experience with ayahuasca, the psychedelic Amazonian brew. "I met somebody in Copacabana and my wife Trudie and I got in the back of his car and were mysteriously led...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Flamenco - la Noche de Flamenco (Flamenco Night) this Sat at 20:30 in República Sur (Pres. Córdova 5-55) with rosario Castaño and classical guitarist Jon Colkey Valdé. Concierto - with Rondalla Cañari performing Christmas music from...
American-born photographer Thomas Ives has worked for international news and feature magazines for over 38 years. His photo essays and images have appeared in National Geographic, Time, Geo, Stern, Newsweek, Life, Smithsonian, and many others publications. He...
A liquor store owner says that more than half the imported liquor consumed in Cuenca over the holidays will be illegal, smuggled across the borders from Colombia and Peru. “I believe it’s about 60% of all sales during the holidays and 50% normally, but in Quito, it’s...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Exposición - the I Exposición de Arte "Permanencia en el Tiempo" (The 1st Art Exhibit, "Permanence in Time") by Fausto Bravo whose show is called Emociones en Dimensiones (Emotions in Dimensions) is showing at the "Puente Roto"...
Gabriela Carrión, owner of Cazhuma Tours in Cuenca, never forgets what it’s like to be a tourist. “If you are not out there checking the details of the tours, you don’t know what your clients are experiencing,” she says. “Are they booked for uncomfortable 12-hour or...
Gout gets me again. I had a recurrence of gout pains in several joints in late November to the extent that I needed Tom to come over and get some groceries for my empty refrigerator. Extra treatments from my massage therapist; pain pills prescribed by my doctor; no...
According to Rodney Martinez, director of the non-profit International Research Center on El Niño in Guayaquil, the government of Ecuador is much better prepared for a strong El Niño today than it was in 1997. “They had excellent weather forecasts then,” he says. “The...
Editor's note: CuencaHighLife is proud to introduce our newest columnist, Cuenca expat and psychologist Dr. Kelly Bennett. Kelly began his professional career as a space systems engineer in California but has spent most of his working life as a family practice...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Festival de Villancicos - (remember villancicos? or did your tercera aged brain let you down again?) will be on Mon, (21/12) at 20:00 with the Cuenca Internacional Chorale in the Catedral Vieja (Sucre y Luis Cordero). Concierto - la...
Eager to dispel what he calls “news media efforts to spread financial discontent,” Ecuador Vice President Jorge Glas announced Saturday that China has agreed to loan Ecuador $2.8 billion. He also said that a $4.9 billion investment from a French oil company and a $1.5...
We are all immigrants. My father's father was a Hebrew scholar from Minsk in Belarus before he came to Ellis Island in New York to start a new life. My mother's mother and father escaped the pogroms against the Jews. They left a village that may not exist anymore in...
Teresa Cardenas Lopez, 84 years old, opened her tienda, Teresita, in Cuenca's El Centro in 1970. She has lived in Ecuador all her life, raising seven children who still live close by. When asked what motivates her everyday she said, "Mi familia me apoya en todo y...
As part of it Digital Ctiy program, the city of Cuenca will add free Internet Wifi service to city buses in early 2016 and include it on the tranvía when that becomes operational later in the year. City councilman Crisitian Zamora said that technicians are already at...
Editor’s note: CuencaHighLife writer Christopher Lux recently accepted a teaching position on the coast and needed to relocate there from Cuenca. Since he had a car and a hired truck, he thought it would be a cinch. He was wrong. On my way to the coast, I left my car...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Feria - "Posada Concierto: Feria de Saberes" (In Concert? Knowledge Fair) at el Sono (calle Borrero 6'83) from 24-26/12 from 10-21:00 with 30 local producers presenting. Máscaras - the Alianza Francesa has organized the "Gira de...
Cuenca’s José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital was the first hospital in Ecuador and one of the first in Latin America to use stereotactic radiosurgery. Doctors report that the procedure, performed on Tuesday, was successful in removing a brain tumor from a 55-year-old...
Hola, Todos - Pagina cultural - Coros - 4 choruses will sing traditional "villancicos" (Christmas carols - your word for the day is a seasonal one - you think you'll still remember it next Christmas? If you're my age, still learning Spanish, and said yes, you are a...
Después de que una jueza en Brasil dictara el bloqueo de 48 horas a la aplicación Whatsapp millones de usuarios optaron por instalar aplicaciones como Telegram o Viber – el bloqueo se dio debido a una investigación que se está llevando a cabo desde hace uno meses en...
City officials and University of Cuenca architects presented their plans for the redesigned San Francisco Plaza Wednesday and vendors who currently occupy the plaza announced they are ready for a fight. The plans were unveiled in the Chamber of Industries auditorium...
