CRIME AND ACCIDENT REPORT

Cuenca and National Criminal Activity (Cuenca) Joseph Yanzaguano Morocho, 17, who disappeared on Sunday October 13, in the Paute canton was found dead last Tuesday… Read More

The care is kind if good, well maybe

I think I’m passing a kidney stone. Maybe, maybe not. I have a lot of back pain in the area that would indicate that I… Read More

Cantonal Council approves taxes to Cuenca homeowners of $11 million

Starting in January next year, Cuencanos will have to pay over $11 million in taxes for works of “general benefit,”… Read More

More than 250 people plant 3,500 trees on the Mishquiyacu hill

The Ministry of the Environment, through the Provincial Directorate of Azuay, National Reforestation Program and Environmental and Social Reparation Program,… Read More

Campaign on preventing teenage pregnancy launched in Cuenca

The Sexual and Reproductive Health Network (RED SEX) and the Municipal GAD of Cuenca, presented a campaign to students last… Read More

Victims of abuse are feeling more empowered to report violence

Victims of abuse are starting to break the silence in which they have been submerged for several years. The director of… Read More

HIV prevention openly discussed in Cuenca campaign

Last Friday, November 29, the HIV Prevention Campaign was launched as part of the commemoration of World AIDS Day. The… Read More

Drivers complain about aggressive street corner window washers

The people who dedicate themselves to asking for money in exchange for cleaning windshields of the cars on the streets… Read More

IESS hospital preforms first minimally invasive heart procedure

The cost of this intervention in the private health system is around $ 20,000. However, in the hospital it is done… Read More

Moreno stands behind actions in October protests

Ecuador President Lenin Moreno does not regret his response to the protests that shook his country last October and believes he did the right thing by trying to eliminate a “perverse” subsidy to fuels that, in his opinion, benefits the “wealthiest,” narcos and traffickers.” In… Read More

Lawmakers spend a day experiencing how unfriendly Ecuador is to the disabled

Last Tuesday, a group of Ecuadorian legislators mimicked the problems a person with disabilities faces daily in order to experiencefor themselves what those struggles entail. And perhaps to a legislate with greater sensitivity towards the disabled. The sensitization exercise was carried out when the International… Read More

Light & Touch Therapy

“If you do something unnatural, then you should expect an unnatural result.” Those were some of the first words that Martyn Luberti said to me when we met to talk about his business, Light & Touch Therapy. And another central theme—that supporting the body to… Read More

The Palora Pastaza Bio-Corridor Project

By Irene Gardner In July 2019, an article entitled The Achuar and Preserving the Amazon appeared in the Cuenca Dispatch, which described the efforts of the Achuar, supported by the… Read More