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...

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 […]

On Tuesday, December 10, 2019, the Mayor’s Office of Cuenca and the International Republican Institute (IRI), signed an agreement to receive support on “Transparency and Corruption Prevention” issues. The IRI will be responsible for conducting courses, workshops, conferences, and other activities in order to strengthen the Municipality in issues such as access to information in […]

The José Carrasco Arteaga hospital (HJCA), hoping to strengthen its services, is beginning a new renovation plan with the remodeling of nine operating rooms. Jorge Ulloa, general coordinator of Hospitalization and Outpatient at HJCA, explained that the works are classified in four stages, the first culminating with the internal adaptation of the Emergency and Traumatology […]

Traffic at kilometer 1.8 of the Cuenca-Azogues roadway, near the 12 de Octubre roundabout is going to be restricted for about one month due to a recent landslide on the autopista. An inclined cut and the removal of more than 1,500 cubic meters of clay and sand material will be carried out by the Ministry […]

Ecuadorian citizen Miguel Douglas Rodriguez was identified as one of the victims of the violent shooting that occurred on Tuesday afternoon in a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, NJ in the United States. Rodriguez was a Guayaquil-born man who was working in the store when two people entered and began a violent rampage that left […]

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has released the 2019 Human Development Report. Ecuador’s Human Development Index (HDI) is recorded as 0.758, which places it at the highest level of human development. Ecuador’s HDI is above the average for the countries of the “high human development group” and is in line with the average for […]

On Monday, the Cantonal Council of Cuenca met and approved (in the second debate) the 2020 Budget Proforma for an amount of $239,177,636, with 15 votes in favor and one member abstaining. The 2020 budget exceeds the 2019 budget by $24,500,911. Pedro Palacios, Mayor of Cuenca, said that the budget was approved in the second debate, […]