Posts:
The United States and most Latin American nations voiced concerns over political tensions in Venezuela after the socialist government arrested the opposition mayor of Caracas in an alleged coup plot. Almost exactly one year after opposition figure Leopoldo Lopez was...
Cuenca’s International Art Bienal is reviewing its mission and says it needs to do a better job of engaging the public. Many local artists criticized the 2014 event for its focus on installation art and pointed to poor attendance as a reason to make changes. Cristóbal...
Editor’s note: To save time on their 90-day T3 passport visa stamps so they could monitor construction progress on their Cuenca condo, Chiyemi and Terry Doyle were recently forced into temporary exile from Ecuador. They cooled their heels in Peru and Colombia until...
The National Electoral Council (CNE) has again denied opponents of a constitutional amendment allowing indefinite reelection of public officials. If the amendment goes into effect, it is widely believed that President Rafael Correa will seek another term office. The...
The Facebook page Crudo Ecuador (Raw Ecuador), dedicated to political satire and one of the main reasons why president Rafael Correa initiated a social-media battle in the country, announced on Thursday that it is shutting down, including the associated website and...
Shrimp prices are sliding in Ecuador but producers say they are optimistic about long-term prospects. According to industry sources, the drop is due to a combination of factors: the overproduction of large sizes of shrimp, European buyers keeping an eye on the dollar...
The Ecuadorian Embassy in Caracas says that a record number of Venezuelans are applying for permanent residency in Ecuador. It also reports that Ecuadorian expats in Venezuela are coming home. “It’s a bad situation and many people have decided to leave,” says Roberto...
More than 56 percent of Latin American adults are overweight or obese, compared to a global average of 34 percent, according to a report by the Overseas Development Institute last year. The growing problem often affects the poorest in society, and threatens to...
The European Union (EU) has made the first payment in a plan to protect large stretches of grasslands in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, Peru and Colombia. The objective of project is to protect watersheds and environmentally sensitive land above the treeline, known...
Ecuadorian authorities on Friday ordered the Guayaquil newspaper El Universo and a local cartoonist to publish an apology for a satirical photomontage of a National Assembly member which they said discriminated against Afro-Ecuadorians, in a case that is fueling...
By Marianela Jarroud In Latin America’s prisons, notorious for extreme overcrowding and violence, inmates live in constant danger of being killed – a contradiction in a region where virtually every country has abolished the death penalty. “In many Latin American...
President Rafael Correa says the country’s social security system (IESS) requires top-to-bottom reform to restore its financial stability. During his Saturday television broadcast, he said he is drafting legislation he will submit to the National Assembly to address...
Historic district property owners along the route of tram construction are complaining to city officials that they have received inadequate information about the project. In particular, Cuenca Chamber of Commerce director Jaime Moreno says that businesses on the route...
By David Scigluizzo Ecuador bonds have defied the slump in oil prices with a solid rebound, and this year the sovereign could pay principal on one of its maturing global issues for the first time ever. The turnabout is nothing short of remarkable for a country that...
It has been more than a decade since Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar airport hosted international flights but a recently opened airport immigration office means they could begin again. Airport officials say that international flights, which would be to Peru and possibly...
By Rebeca Morla Xavier Bonilla, the Ecuadorian cartoonist known as Bonil, is once again the target of a government investigation over one of his newspaper cartoons. On February 9, the Superintendency of Information and Communication (Supercom) conducted a hearing on...
By Sylvan Hardy One of the first things that expats Sally Lincoln and Al Jennings noticed when they moved to Cuenca was the high quality of work produced by the city’s artists. Since both have had long careers in the arts in the U.S., they also noticed that there was...
By Larry Schunk Folks argue the merits of the many restaurants serving pizza in Cuenca and around the world. In Cuenca, the pizza at the Mediterraneo ranks as the best by some, while others prefer Fabiano’s, Tutto Matto, La Vina, and other great places for pies. On my...
On Friday, January 27, a helicopter of the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) crashed in the province of Napo. In the aftermath, a new scandal has come to light with allegations of public corruption. In 2008, then-Minister of Defense Javier Ponce signed a contract with...
CuencaHighLife has been re- designed, expanded, and upgraded to address the evolving needs of the expanding Cuenca and Ecuador expatriate community. According to CuencaHighLife partner Deke Castleman, the redesign is both visual and conceptual. “Our purpose is the...
