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President Rafael Correa is proposing a new law that would drastically reduce the number of visa categories and make all immigrants legal in Ecuador. Ecuador has become popular destination for foreigners and has Latin America’s largest refugee population, largely due...
By Melina Marks I believe in many things, but one of my highest beliefs is in the value of change. I believe that we cannot grow, we cannot learn, and we cannot become who we are meant to be without change. I used to believe the opposite of this. Change was something...
CuencaHighLife is expanding its services by affiliating with InterNations.org, a website community that connects more than one million expats around the world. Founded in 2007, InterNations hosts expat communities in 390 cities, including in Quito and Guayaquil in...
As protests mount against proposed legislation that would increase Ecuador’s inheritance tax, President Rafael Correa says that much of the inspiration behind the legislation comes from French economist Thomas Piketty. The protests are being staged in Ecuador’s major...
By Scott Fugit We stepped through the open concrete entry into a dimly lit crowded room. Small groups of people surrounded stainless-steel tables while standing in fur and bandages. Others held flashlights high. The air was heavy with many odors, something like the...
Zero magazine publisher Sara Coppler says that the magazine will reemerge with a new focus. “We plan to publish again with an emphasis on creative arts and culture,” she says. “It’s an approach we feel comfortable with that doesn’t require us to compromise our vision,...
A committee of city officials and representatives of 23 public and private institutions met Monday to begin the process to make Cuenca a “digital city.” According to Cuenca technology chief Ronnie Araneda, the project aims at improving the quality of life by making...
By David Morrill At 75, Cuenca ceramicist Eduardo Segovia shows no sign of slowing down. On most days, in fact, you can find him hard at work in his Cuenca studio, just west of the historic district. "I still have the enthusiasm for creation. I can't imagine life...
By Amy Guthrie From a Mexican tax on sugary drinks, to legislation banning Happy Meal toys in Chile and Peru, to Ecuador's president asking why consumers should support multi-national corporations that spread obesity, Latin America is becoming a laboratory for public...
Rosanne Morris knew it was time to pull up stakes when a Canadian acquaintance was found murdered beside a highway south of Guadalajara, Mexico in early February. Like thousands of other U.S. and Canadian expatriates, she lived in the Lake Chapala region of Mexico...
Two years after the financial cooperative Coopera was shut down by the government, eight investors have not received any of their money back and they could be in trouble with the law. Coopera was closed in June 2013, after several managers and officers of the coop...
Los Kichwa en Sarayuku han tenido un largo y bien documentado conflicto contra la extracción de petróleo, aceite y minerales en su territorio, situado en la parte centro-sureña de la Amazonía ecuatoriana. Con el objetivo de defender sus tierras, la comunidad Sarayuku...
CPA says inheritance tax changes will have little effect on expats A former CPA from the U.S. says that increases to Ecuador’s inheritance tax rate will have little impact on most foreign residents from the U.S. and Canada. George W. Lewis, a Quito expat, says that...
The Kichwa people of Sarayaku have had a long and well-documented struggle against oil, gas, and mineral extraction on their territory, located in the southern-central part of the Ecuadorian Amazon. In defense of the lands, the Sarayaku community has taken advantage...
By James North Rafael Correa is often wrongly paired with Hugo Chávez, the late Venezuelan president, as an outspoken Latin American populist. In fact, the differences between the two men are significant. Chávez was a career army colonel; Correa is an accomplished...
By Sylvan Hardy Although it was an instant hit with University of Cuenca students, MeLatte Café in Esquina de las Artes has been discovered by only a handful of expats. MeLatte is the cornerstone of a project to revitalize Esquina de las Artes, an attractive...
Aunque el Alcalde de Cuenca Marcelo Cabrera dijo que está decepcionado de que el gobierno federal se rehusó a proporcionar los 17.8 Millones de dólares que él solicitó para la construcción del tranvía, dijo que encontrará el financiamiento en otras fuentes. “No habrá...
Although Cuenca Mayor Marcelo Cabrera said he was disappointed that the federal government refused to provide the additional $17.8 million he had requested for tram construction, he said funding will be found through other sources. "There would be no problems in...
Ecuador’s Geophysical Institute reports that seismic activity and gas emissions at the Cotopaxi volcano have increased in recent weeks. The institute says that 3,000 small earthquakes were recorded at the volcano in May, the most in 15 years. The report issued by...
Wendy Jane Carrel On December 2, 1826, a baby girl was born on Calle de la Flor Baja in the neighborhood of San Martin, Madrid, Spain and named Bibiana Antonia Manuela Torres Acosta. As the story is told, above her bed was a painting of the Virgin Mary, to whom she...
