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By Roger Ellis In my 16 years’ experience as an expat -- three in Mexico and Panama, and 13 in Ecuador -- most of the things you don’t hear about in the glowing reports about life overseas turn out to be unpleasant. (“They didn’t tell me how hard it would be to learn...
Blackout periods in most of the country have been reduced since Thursday due to increased hydroelectric generation. In Quito and Cuenca, one of two daily blackouts have been eliminated or have had their hours reduced. The Energy Ministry credits the higher production...
By Megan Janetsky and Gabriela Selser Sergio Mena's life dissolved in hours. After years resisting President Daniel Ortega, the rural activist fled Nicaragua in 2018, joining thousands of protesters fleeing a yearslong crackdown on dissent. Mena returned from exile in...
Jueves, 28/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - De El Mercurio del jueves, 27/11 (3 articles): Exposición patrimonial (Historical exhibit) - There is an exhibit, "Transformación y modernidad," by Gilberto Gatto Sobral at the Casa Patrimonial Municipal Quinta Bolívar...
A day after saying she planned to fulfill President Daniel Noboa’s promise to end electric blackouts December 1, Energy Minister Inés Manzano said the new target is the end of December. Following her video announcement, Manzano’s office released a social media...
By Molly Young Maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including exercise and diet, can be crucial to your quality of life. However, a woman who lived beyond 90 suggested that her food and habit choices didn’t negatively impact her all that much. Science says after the first...
Why does the country’s news media focus on the weather in Cuenca and Azuay Province? “There’s a good reason why we hear so much about the rivers in Cuenca and about the weather in Azuay Province,” said former assistant director of the National Meteorological Institute...
Energy Minister Inés Manzano is backing President Daniel Noboa’s claim that blackouts will end in December although it may not happen on December 1, as Noboa had said on two occasions. “This is a promise the president has made and we are working hard to fulfill it,"...
By John Besley Colombia’s president has hit back at the UK government saying his country will impose visa requirements on British citizens in response to the UK Government’s decision to impose visa rules on Colombian visitors. The number of Colombians claiming asylum...
A band of rain showers stretching from south of Cuenca to Quito moved through the intermountain valley late Tuesday, providing some areas of the Cajas mountains with the first measurable rainfall since September. Firefighters and volunteers battling forest fires near...
Fuel distributors and service stations in Cuenca are blaming PetroEcuador for a shortage of diesel fuel in Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago Provinces. “Our agreement with them is for the timely delivery of fuel and they have failed, putting transport companies and...
By Edwin Owens As ‘America’s volcano country,’ El Salvador is finding its place in the renewable energy industry and using its geothermal advantages. The country, active with volcanic features, has harnessed these forces to produce electricity, especially through...
Lunes, 25/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Fantasía y emoción se vivirá con ballet "El Cascanueces" (Fantasy and excitement will be experienced with “The Nutcracker” ballet) - The Nutcracker will be performed from el 19-21/12 in the Teatro Carlos Cueva Tamariz by...
The biggest judicial corruption case in Ecuador history, code-named Metastasis, concluded Monday with the sentencing of 20 men and women who worked with drug trafficker Leandro Norero to provide favorable treatment of drug gang convicts. Among those headed to prison...
By Keston Perry As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. While its effects, such as unprecedented flooding, devastating droughts, storm...
Domingo, 24/11/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - Exhiben artesanías de San Fernando (San Fernando handicrafts on display) - The crafts show, "Un Pedacito de San Fernando en el Corazón de Cuenca" will be at the Aceladora Cultural de la Casa de la Cultura (Luis Cordero y...
By Stephen Vargha It’s part of the business… Restaurants come and go. In Cuenca, it seems to be at a faster pace. And without notice. That is why many people wondered what happened to Jose Ibañez and his restaurant, Calvo & Co. Ibañez was the owner of Calvo &...
Power blackouts for Monday through Thursday will be six to seven hours a day, down from last week’s eight hours, the Energy Ministry announced Saturday. The schedule for Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago Provinces for November 25 to 28 is posted on the Centrosur...
By Andee Tagle and Malaka Gharib With all the cooking, feasting and leftover-keeping that comes with the holidays, it can be hard to know how to keep food safe. Sometimes we just do what our families did growing up (like storing rice in the rice cooker all day)....
Although President Daniel Noboa insists electric blackouts will end in December, experts say it is a promise he may not be able to meet. On Wednesday, Noboa repeated the claim at a ceremony in Esmeraldas. "As a result of neglect and corruption by previous governments,...
