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By Rebeca Morla In order to confront what the president calls a “systematic smear campaign” from Ecuador’s opposition, Correa unleashed the website Somos + (We Are More), presented during his weekly radio and television address Citizen Link. According to the...
By David Morrill When I got my new U.S. passport in December, it also meant I needed a new Ecuadorian residency passport visa stamp. How hard can this be, I wondered, since I'd already been vetted by the immigration folks during the original visa process. The answer...
By Larry Schunk A few years ago, I spotted this place across the airport parking lot and gave it a try as hunger had set in. I left my car in the airport lot. The airport wasn’t charging for parking yet. It was midday and the place was filling up. Seating was (and...
Cuenca college students are demanding that city officials follow Quito’s lead and keep municipal bus fares at 25 cents. Following negotiations with bus companies, Quito Mayor Mauricio Rodas announced last week that fares would remain at 25 cents, although the city...
By Sylvan Hardy Uruguay has become the only country in the world with legal, regulated, recreational-marijuana sales, the world's first and only state-run marijuana marketplace. An omnibus marijuana law was passed in 2013, of which two major elements have gone into...
President Rafael Correa said Thursday that Ecuador is justified in imposing tariffs on products from Colombia and Peru to maintain its financial stability. "I have been in discussions with the presidents of Colombia and Peru and we are working to reach a consensus and...
By Simon Romero and Jonathan Gilbert Argentina’s government asserted on Friday that an ousted spymaster was involved in the murky events around the death of the prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center, with with President Cristina Fernández de...
By Manuel Rueda The president of Ecuador is sick and tired of ‘cyber bullies’ mocking him with Facebook memes. And now he’s fighting back by creating a “volunteer” cyber army armed with pro-government propaganda. Social media memes are ideas, information and web sites...
The United Arab Emerites (UAE) is putting blame from plunging oil prices squarely on the United States and Canada. UAE Energy Minister Suhail Mazroui said last week that it was impossible for Middle East oil producing countries to protect oil prices in the face of...
By Dr. Lee Dubs You can find a lot of articles that tell you that Ecuador is the perfect place to retire. Plenty of writers encourage you to move to Ecuador, and many want you to make that move for reasons of their own. Some even use words like “thousands” when...
Latin America should become an area free of extreme poverty, and one where living are raised in general, according to Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño. Patiño was speaking ahead of next week's Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) meeting...
A strong thunderstorm paralyzed parts of central and southern Cuenca Saturday afternoon, flooding streets, cars and homes, and briefly filling the Rios Tomebamaba and Yanuncay to their banks. Flooding caused minor damage at the both the University of Cuenca and...
[Editor’s Note: Pets are important to many expats. The following article is an excerpt from Expats in Ecuador: Life in Cuenca Second Edition by David Morrill and Deke Castleman. It mainly deals with bringing pets with you to Ecuador and was written about a year ago,...
By Nathan Gill Nicolas Maduro and Rafael Correa are both socialist disciples of the late Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, but only one is managing to convince bondholders he’s got the ability to weather the collapse in oil prices. While Chavez’s handpicked successor...
What effect will federal budget cuts have on Cuenca in 2015? Not much, at least what you can see, say several officials. “This year and next year, there will be more major projects in development than any other time in the city’s history,” says Pabel Muñoz, director...
Ecuador’s economy has received a vote of confidence from the international rating agency Fitch. The agency’s opinion is used as a barometer of a country’s financial health and to set interest rates for public bond offerings. According to Fitch, “The Ecuadorian...
A 19-year-old Ecuadorian beauty queen and aspiring doctor died during a botched liposuction operation she was awarded as a prize, according to authorities. Catherine Cando, who was crowned Queen of Durán last fall, initially refused the slimming procedure reasoning...
By Grégory Salomonovitch and Caroline Pothie The communities living in Intag Valley in northern Ecuador have been opposing attempts to introduce an open-pit copper mine for 20 years. Such a mine would endanger one of the world’s richest areas in terms of biodiversity,...
Editor’s note: CuencaHighLife restaurant reviewer Larry Schunk enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1960 and, following two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he was wounded, he was retrained in aviation electronics and pioneered the Marine Corps Computer Based Training...
Passenger traffic through Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar airport dropped by almost 25% in 2014, a decline officials say is mostly the result of the opening of Quito’s new international airport. Officials report that about 381,000 passengers traveled through Cuenca in 2014...
