Ecuador is the largest recipient of recognized refugees in Latin America and the Caribbean. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador, José Valencia, on Tuesday at the plenary session of the First World Forum on Refugees, held in Geneva, Switzerland. According to Valencia, 68,708 people are in the […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Twelve years ago, Iván Moya won a scholarship to study at the Catholic University of Belgium (VIB-KULeuven), where he earned his PhD in Biomedical Sciences. Subsequently, he joined a team of researchers led by Dr. Georg Halder who has just published the result of a scientific investigation that constitutes a contribution in the fight against the […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Petroecuador will import 3.36 million barrels of premium diesel from the Singapore-based firm Trafigura Pte. Ltd. Trafigura was the winner of an international competition that Petroecuador says involved 45 companies. This was reported yesterday in a statement by the public oil company of Ecuador, that said that with this import, it will be able to […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Last week we published a story about the Municipality’s new “Guía caminANTES,” or “Walkers Guide,” that lays out in detail, 16 different hikes—ranging from low difficulty to high difficulty—that one can take around the Cuenca area. This new guide offers a chance to see Cuenca in a different way. El Tiempo columnist Pablo Osorio Guerrero […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Decongesting and reorganizing the increase in informal sales in the city in a planned manner, is the main objective of the construction of three markets in Cuenca where more than 1,000 autonomous merchants will be relocated. These spaces are included in the planning and budget of the Municipality of Cuenca for 2020, according to Patricio […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Climate change, one of the main environmental problems today, places the amphibians of the Ecuadorian Chocó, especially frogs, even more vulnerable, according to a statement from the Jocotoco Foundation. Amphibians, being ectotherms (they depend on the heat of the environment instead of producing it internally), can be greatly affected by varying weather conditions. A scientific study […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

A total of 87 archaeological pieces from the reserve of the Municipal Museum Remigio Crespo Toral de Cuenca, were chosen for a sample exhibit called “100 Years in Search of a Millenary Past.”The exhibit will be open until March 2020. They pieces are elaborate objects in ceramics, bone, stone and metal. There are utensils, sculptures, […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

Tuesday morning, the National Labor and Wages Council met to try to reach an agreement on the basic salary for 2020. Before joining the meeting at the Ministry of Labor, Richard Gómez, Vice President of the Unitary Central of Workers (CUT), indicated that his organization proposes an increase of $15 to the current value of […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

The Directorate of Risks and Insurance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG), issued a statement this week indicating that no agricultural or livestock losses have been reported after last week’s fall of ash in the Austro region of the country. In Cañar, most of the ash fall was slight—it did not have a […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!

  The Telecommunications, Drinking Water and Sewerage Company (ETAPA), is reviewing its budget for 2020 to examine what services it will continue and which one it may cut. The hope is that with changes, it can resolve the economic crisis that is currently going through. The company—the largest of the Municipality of Cuenca’s eight companies—says […] To view this article you must have an active subscription. Already a member? Sign in. Subscribe to weekly reports on Ecuador’s economics, politics, crime and more. Not sure you want to commit? Don’t worry, you can cancel anytime. For a limited time,subscribe now and get your first month for only $1. Regular subscriptions available at $4.99/month or $42/year. Subscribe now!