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Chevron Oil was forced to ward off a litany of accusations of environmental damage and corporate malfeasance during its annual meeting Wednesday in San Ramon. Protestors holding an array of signs greeted people arriving at company headquarters in San Ramon for the...
After they were alerted by their owners, members of Cuenca's citizen's guard recovered two puppies on Wednesday at the Feria Libre market. The dogs, a Siberian husky and an English bulldog, were stolen over the weekend in the Cristo del Consuelo neighborhood....
Publisher Sara Coppler announced Wednesday the launching of a new Zero Magazine website. In a press release, she stated the goals and mission for the website and magazine. What’s happening in (and out) of Cuenca? What’s the latest news on the arts and culture scene?...
From his first year in office, President Rafael Correa has talked about building a transcontinental highway from the country’s Pacific coast to Brazil. In 2008, he discussed the plan with Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva, and plans were subsequently drawn up...
By Richard Rolandson I asked the editors of CuencaHighLife if I could respond to a recent article criticizing U.S. government policies toward its citizens living abroad. They kindly obliged. As I thought about it, I realized that what I really wanted to say concerned...
Ecuadorian authorities have launched an investigation into local television network Teleamazonas and their Saturday afternoon broadcast of the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) program SmackDown. According to the Superintendency of Communication and Information...
A Galapagos Islands volcano has erupted for the first since 1933, providing a spectacular light show for hundreds of tourists on cruise ships and yachts. The eruption of the Wolf volcano is on Isabela Island, the western-most of the Galapagos. Park rangers at...
Assemblywoman Esperanza Galván, member of the governing Alianza Pais party, was arrested Sunday for allegedly receiving $800,000 from a company that supplied infrastructure services to the state. Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who gave details of the arrest on...
In his annual presidential report to the nation, President Rafael Correa said Sunday that Ecuador’s economy and financial systems are performing better than predicted, and that levels of poverty and inequality are in decline. “We have not reduced spending on any major...
Ecuador has decided it needs to replenish and upgrade its cattle stock and is looking to Texas and Paraguay for help. Working with large Ecuadorian beef producers, the country’s agriculture ministry is importing 1,300 head of Brangus and Braford cattle from Paraguay,...
By Kevin Gray Add Ecuador to a growing list of countries pushing back against the U.S. “war on drugs.” A ruling party lawmaker recently introduced legislation that would make Ecuador the second country in the world — and the first in the Americas— to decriminalize the...
Panama hats are showing up all over at this year’s Cannes film festival and many of them were made in Cuenca. Cuenca's Ortega Brothers, the world’s largest exporter of Panama hats, or sobreros de paja toquilla, as they are called in Ecuador, says it shipped several to...
Government says it undercounted chikungunya cases Ecuador’s Health Ministry acknowledged Thursday that it undercounted the number of cases of the chikungunya virus in Guayas and two other Provinces. It said the current number of cases stands at 11,897, up from 10,180...
By Brett Arends The U.S. government’s stupid, hateful and dishonest war on Americans living abroad claimed its latest scalp two weeks ago. London Mayor Boris Johnson, a dual British and American national, says he will join the growing lines of Americans overseas who...
By Karla Freeman I live with questions. Since I live to learn, I understand that questions are the raw material that lead to knowledge. My questions change daily. Before moving to Cuenca, I lived in Buenos Aires and I had very different sets of questions. Who were the...
President Rafael Correa on Tuesday asked municipalities to redouble their efforts to fight the chikungunya outbreak that is spreading in Ecuador’s coastal region. The mosquito-borne illness has affected more than 10,000 so far, according to the Ministry of Health....
Ecuador’s National Traffic Agency (ACT) is updating its driver’s license tests for both new and renewed licenses. The ANT is replacing current questionnaires with six new ones that it says comply with the new traffic law, the Organic Law of Land Transport, Traffic and...
By Sylvan Hardy It is a welcomed but often overlooked phenomenon on the Cuenca restaurant scene, and one that has transformed the experience of eating out over the past five or six years. It goes like this. Ecuadorians leave home, spend years working in U.S., Canadian...
Legislation that would fix the prices for domestic air travel is being attacked the country’s airlines as unnecessary intervention into a market system that provides choices to travelers. A bill introduced into the National Assembly by Cuenca assemblyman Oswaldo...
Ecuador is on a mission to confound Western governments. President Rafael Correa has sent one of his most popular cabinet members on a two-week European tour that includes stops in Florence, Paris, Madrid and Geneva. The high-level representative is not asking his...
