LATAM Airlines, the largest airline in Latin America—and the only major airline servicing Cuenca after the Ecuadorian government’s announcement last week that it will shut down TAME—reported on Friday that it will fire some 450 workers amid the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on its operations, a week after announcing more than a thousand layoffs. […]

Yesterday, almost anticlimactically, Cuenca officially entered into the Yellow signal phase of coronavirus restrictions, as many businesses in El Centro had been pushing the boundaries of legal behavior over the last two weeks. Nonetheless, as the canton begins this new phase of social distancing the Mayor, Pedro Palacios, is calling for citizen co-responsibility to avoid […]

The Cuenca trams left the workshop yard on the morning of Monday, May 25 with yellow hazard tapes indicating the spaces that users cannot occupy. This is one of the biosafety measures implemented by the Executing Unit for the citizen training phase that begins this week. It is the second time that the Tram enters this phase, the first was […]