In the first week of collection of taxes for urban and rustic properties, the Municipality has brought in 14% of the projected fees for 2020, says Patricio Abad, the financial director of the local government. According to the latest property tax collection report, citizen payments totaled $1,750,000 in the first week; this amount is expected […]
Cuenca and National Criminal Activity (Cuenca) A woman and her 20-year-old son have been arrested by the Police for the crime of extortion. The police report notes that after learning of the complaint made by two citizens about telephone calls to demand the delivery of $300 to return a television that was stolen from them, […]
Today I was talking to a friend who lives in Thailand and he told me about a “brilliant” (as in not really brilliant) idea that someone we know has come up with. The guy he mentioned has decided to open a Cajun restaurant. In Thailand. When pressed on whether he thought he would have enough […]
Norma doesn’t remember how much money she had for the grocery purchases 20 years ago, when the currency in Ecuador was the sucre, only that the return varied. “One week the money was reached, and another did not, so there I saw what I cooked my children. Sometimes it was just rice with guineo,” says this 57-year-old […]
The impact of the commercial agreement with the European Union (EU) in the automotive sector—that marks its fourth year of a total of seven years in 2020—is reflected in the sale of European vehicles in the Ecuadorian market. According to the Association of Automotive Companies of Ecuador (Aeade), at the end of 2019, the position […]
Andrés Torres from Mexico and Jessica Guzmán from Mexico, both 20, enjoyed the sea and the sun in the La Lobería sector, in Salinas, last Sunday afternoon. At an unexpected moment, the two young people were dragged offshore by several waves. The incident occurred just after 5:00 p.m. Some people observed the fact from the tourist viewpoint […]
On January 6, 2020, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) published the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This recent report showed a monthly inflation of -0.01% in December 2019, compared to the previous month which was -0.70%. The annual variation in the last month of 2019 was -0.07%. In December 2018 it was 0.27%. […]
Deportivo Cuenca will be one of the clubs with the lowest budget in the 2020 season. Yet, the monthly payroll of the football team (and coaching staff) is set at $100,000. The maximum amount any one player will be paid is $8,000 a month. According to Juan Serrano, president of the Football Commission, he has […]
A wooden door, larger than normal, separates what for many is the “material world from the spiritual.” It is the entrance to the interior of the Cloister of the Mothers of Carmen de La Asunción, in Cuenca, where 20 nuns are separated from the everyday life of Cuenca. They receive visits three times a year. […]
Health is the base theme of the Tomebamba Rotary Club for 2020. Several projects are underway and waiting for public entities that can join the great work, whose purpose is to serve the community that requires it. Javier Ordóñez, president of the Tomebamba Rotary Club, said that in 2020, they have a range of projects […]
A total of 93,825 vehicles were registered in Cuenca in 2019. That’s 919 more than the 92,906 that were on the roads in 2018. This is in a city that has parking for about 112,000 cars. In January 2019, 3,484 cars were registered in Cuenca. In February that number was added to by another 6,739 car registrations. […]
The Pumapungo Museum received more than 158,000 visitors in 2019, which exceeded the figure of 140,000 reached in 2018. This means an average frequency close to 3,000 weekly visitors. This year a total renovation of the site, its museology and an encounter with Cuzco is planned as in November the museum will turn 40 years […]
The price of gas delivered at your home will not be regulated by the Agency for Regulation and Control of Hydrocarbons (ARCH) and will be subject to the free supply and demand of the product, said Juan Manuel Rodríguez, regional director of the institution. This comes after citizen requests that ARCH establish a value of […]
It’s considered an ambitious but very necessary project for Cuenca: the restructuring of the cadastre (property register) of the urban area of the canton will contemplate a range of changes and obtain an approximation of the reality of the city through an integral census of the properties. The last time that the cadastre of Cuenca […]
Without the help of one of Cuenca’s Citizen Guard, the new year would have had a tragic start last Thursday. On the morning of January 2, 2020, a member of the Citizen Guard of Cuenca saved the life of a 10-month-old baby boy who had fallen inside a bucket of water and was found unconscious. […]
The sale of companion animals such as dogs and cats is now “totally prohibited at the Feria Libre,” according to the municipal director of Markets, Marcelo Álvarez Toral, who warned that all pets that are sold in the sector will be rescued and given up for adoption by the Citizen Guard. The decision, according to […]