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In a late Thursday night social media video, Energy Minister Inés Manzano announced that effectively immediately power blackouts will be extended to 14 hours a day. The announcement is a dramatic reversal of last week's plan, presented by President Daniel Noboa, to...
By Christopher Lux I was already teaching when I moved Ecuador. I teach online, and I had the work set up before I moved from the U.S. In terms of money and flexibility, I feel like this is a good way for me to "teach in Ecuador." There are a lot of people like me in...
By Ron Skelton Gravedigger Jesus Moreno could hardly have met a more pointless or brutal death. As he carried out maintenance work in a cemetery in the Santa Cruz region of eastern Bolivia, five irate men visiting one of the tombs mistook the 54-year-old for a grave...
Cuenca set a new all-time temperature record Tuesday, with a high of 29.4 degrees (85 Fahrenheit). According ETAPA meteorologist Rigoberto Guerrero, it is the fourth record high since 2022 and part of "the very frightening trend" of global warming. "Overall...
By Lars Kinderman Panama hats have made the leap from the heads of Hollywood icons and intrepid jungle explorers to the fashionable masses of Europe and the United States. Models are wearing them on catwalks and teenagers are sporting them at clubs. In 2019, a number...
By Luis Jaime Acosta Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found on Friday. Some...
Martes, 21/10/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades De El Mercurio del lunes, 21/10 (1 article): Presentan agenda festiva en medio de cuestionamientos (Festival agenda presented amidst questioning) - The agenda for the celebrations of the Independence of Cuenca was launched...
By Christopher Lux Although most Cuenca, Ecuador expats know that the city is the namesake of Cuenca, Spain, few really know much about Spanish Cuenca. Cuenca, Ecuador was named by Andrés Hurtado de Mendoza, a Spanish military commander and the fifth Viceroy of Peru,...
The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% of the world’s coral reef areas — from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
By executive decree, President Daniel Noboa has ordered the 15% IVA reduced to 8% during the four-day Cuenca holidays, November 1 to 4. The holidays, the longest on Ecuador's calendar, combine All Souls Day with the observance of Cuenca's independence from Spain. The...
By Stephen Vargha It appears that the neighborhood, El Vergel, has become the hotspot for restaurants. “Ten years ago, it was the area of Gran Colombia and Av. de las Américas,” said Luis Maldonado. “Then it was Remigio Crespo Toral. And now, it is El Vergel.”...
By Julie TurkewitzAna Ionova and José María León Cabrera Electricity cuts across an entire nation. A capital rationing water. A mayor encouraging people to shower together to save precious drops. The world’s largest river system, the Amazon, which sustains some 30...
Domingo, 20/10/2024 Hola, Todos - Actividades - El Discovery tiene 14 juegos mecánicos y ferias paralelas (Discovery has 14 mechanical games and parallel fairs) - Fairs and entertainment spaces have already started in Cuenca for its 204th Independence celebration. One...
By Liam Higgins Although energy experts don't blame President Daniel Noboa for Ecuador's electricity crisis, all agree he has done a poor job managing it. "From the beginning his approach has been one of neglect that has been made worse by terrible communication to...
By Daren Parker The energy transition in its current form, as a grid-scale build out of wind and solar with the goal to replace oil, coal, and gas, is probably one of the greatest mistakes that humanity has ever made, German-listed commodity company HMS Bergbau Group...
It's hard to complain about beautiful weather, but that's what energy and weather experts were doing Friday and Saturday. "Yes, it's a pretty day out there today but that's exactly what we don't need," said Frank Gomez, a forecaster with the National Meteorology...
By Christopher Lux In a June ceremony in Gualaceo the art of ikat weaving was officially recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage. According to anthropologists, the practice predates both the Spanish and Inca in southern Ecuador. Ikat is a...
By Jamie Friedlander Serrano Bill Gates is known for his solitary “think weeks.” The painter Georgia O’Keeffe often spent days alone walking and working at her ranch in New Mexico. And the poet Emily Dickinson wrote often about the revelations that can come from time...
By Dave Sherwood, Marianna Parraga Cuba's national electrical grid collapsed Friday after the island's major power plants failed, Cuba's energy ministry said, plunging the entire country into a blackout. The Communist-run government earlier in the day closed schools...
Periods of daily electric blackouts for residential customers will drop to eight hours next week, to six hours the week of October 28 and to four hours the week of November 6. To offset the cuts, President Daniel Noboa said that mining operations will be required to...
