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With one of the country’s highest crime rate, residents of Guayaquil are rarely shocked by a crime. They were shocked by one that occurred early last Sunday morning. A young female model was attacked by a group of women near a popular discotec, stripped, beaten and...
There are an estimated 7.6 million Americans living abroad and a new survey by Greenback Expat Tax Services found that 58% voted in the last Presidential election. Called U.S. expats, this block of voters could have an influential voice in the next Presidential...
Taxi driver associations from Latin America and Europe teamed up Monday in their campaigns against Uber and Cabify, following sometimes violent protests over the ride-booking apps. Daniel Medina, of the Organized Taxi Drivers of Mexico City, announced an...
By Christopher Lux I had never been to a Latin Mass. I had never wanted to go. Though the Latin Mass has been growing in popularity among U.S. and Canadian Catholics, it always puzzled me that anyone would want to go to a Mass they couldn't understand. That all...
A cartoon in a Methodist church magazine last year, captioned “What Would Jesus Do,” shows Christ standing next to man taking a picture of the pair, holding a cell phone on a selfie stick. You don’t need a cartoon showing Pope Francis posing for a selfie. Hundreds...
Cuenca expats are getting younger and becoming more international, says a British researcher. They are also spreading out within the city and beyond, he says. Will Phillips, who has lived in Cuenca part-time since 2011, says he wants to establish a demographic profile...
By Melina Marks For English-speakers thinking about moving overseas with kids, school is an extremely important factor to consider. If the new destination is a place like England or Ireland, school really shouldn’t be an issue because of language. But what about a...
Pope Francis received a warm but windy welcome Sunday in Quito in his first stop on a three-nation South American tour. Francis, who is from Argentina, is the first Latin American pope. In an exchange of speeches on the Quito airport tarmac, President Rafael Correa...
Ecuador posted a better than expected three percent economic growth rate for the first quarter of 2015. The government had predicted growth of 2.3% while independent economists had predicted 1.8%. The growth came despite losses of oil revenue due to the worldwide...
By Sylvan Hardy When Paúl Arias moved back to Cuenca at age 15, he couldn’t forget the view of the Manhattan skyline across the bay from Beyonne, New Jersey. “I grew up in Jersey, thinking about New York, and when you do that you think a lot about food,” he says. The...
Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute reports that activity at the Cotopaxi and Tungurahua volcanoes continues at the “moderate” level. On Friday, an ash plume rose to a height of 3,000 meters above the Tungurahua crater as Cotopaxi, 50 miles to the north, continued to emit...
Have you ever wanted to try something new for dinner but were overwhelmed by all the new dining options? Are you planning your first visit to Cuenca and don’t know where to stay? CuencaHighLife has the answer. Our new full-service directory of Cuenca restaurants and...
By Paola Lopez Thirty years ago, Gustavo Negrete took his wooden cross and joined other indigenous Ecuadorans to greet Pope John Paul II. But he has no interest in seeing Pope Francis on Sunday. Like a growing number of indigenous people in Latin America, Negrete has...
Construction work on Cuenca’s new tram system is expanding in the historic district, moving west on Gran Colombia and opening a new front on Gaspar Sangurima. Project director Gerard Fernandez says that track has been laid on six of the system's 20 kilometers. and...
By William Neuman Protesters calling for the ouster of President Rafael Correa have filled the streets of Ecuador’s largest cities in recent weeks in some of the largest anti-government demonstrations here in years, creating tensions on the eve of a visit by Pope...
Editor's note: Diana Jesuroga started her blog about life in Loja in May and has been busy since then answering questions about her city. One of the reasons for all the questions is the hype Loja has received from such retire-overseas websites as International Living...
The announcement this week that China’s Xiaomi, the world’s No. five producer of smartphones, is entering Brazilian market, is another indication that South America could become a cell phone manufacturing center like China. Known as “China’s Apple,” Xiaomi is making...
Students at the state-run University of Buenos Aires gathered on Wednesday at the main university theater and watched in stunned silence. There was no professor analyzing a philosophical text, or activists engaged in a political debate. Instead, there was a real-time...
By Liam Higgins According to Canadian university professor and writer Matthew Hayes, Cuenca expats are unwittingly promoting a racist caste system established centuries ago in Ecuador by the Spanish. Hayes’ analysis appears in the article, “’It is hard being the...
By Pedro Servin and Peter Prengaman Pigs rummage through garbage searching for leftovers. The people live in shacks made of plywood and corrugated metal. Any semblance of stability in the sprawling slum of 15,000 families is upended when heavy rains burst the banks of...
