We put up our Christmas tree this past weekend. It’s beautiful in the corner of the new addition we added to the house. It’s got glass doors on both side of the angle of the corner, so we can see it at night from the outside. And inside, the lights reflect off the glass, making […]

On Monday, December 10, 2019, families in the Central district of the Cañaribamba parish received a modern community alarm system from the Municipality of Cuenca through the Citizen Security Council (CSC). In total, 59 families have this preventive safety system. Pedro Palacios, Mayor of Cuenca, stressed that this preventive security system is part of the […]

Around $18 million will be invested by Ecuador to improve satellite control systems to guarantee the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. This, according to the Minister of Production and Foreign Trade, Iván Ontaneda, will serve to “guarantee $1.6 billion of export and 200,000 jobs created by the fishing sector.” Ecuador is the second largest producer and exporter of tuna in […]

The public company Petroecuador announced a long-term sale of crude oil, but this time different processes will be followed after recent judicial cases against former Petroecuador executives showed unfair practices were followed in the past. Unlike the direct contracts that were signed during the previous Government, with the companies Petrochina, Unipec and Petrotailandia, this time […]

Around 30 coffee growers in the province of Azuay recently participated in a “post-harvest” coffee management workshop organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG). The participating producers have been involved in a continuous training process with the MAG starting with growing seedlings in nursery, sowing, harvesting and the post-harvesting of coffee. The processes […]

An investment of $450 million for the construction of the Cumbe-La Troncal road axis and the payment of the $40 million debt that the National Government maintains with the Azuay Prefecture, will be fulfilled between 2020 and 2021. In the project of the new Cumbe-La Troncal route, resources and contract signatures have been established, said […]

Returning smiles to children is the goal of permanently implementing cleft lip and palate surgery service at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital. The announcement was made by the president of the Board of Directors of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) Paúl Granda. The surgeries are framed within the IESS “Smile” campaign, that in a first […]

A total of 138 minimally invasive surgeries for treatment of urinary tract stones have been performed at Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital since July 2018. Urologist surgeon Enrique Dávila, explained that the treatment is an intracorporeal lithotripsy for bladder stones and ureters,”which allows the stone or stones to be fragmented by laser, so that they can […]

President Lenín Moreno said Wednesday —in the Colombian city of Cali— that the social protests in several Latin American countries were infiltrated by “criminal groups” that sought to impose an agenda to destabilize governments and generate chaos. “Social protests are undoubtedly legitimized and so it should be… but, there is a red line [where] there is […]