The Laberinto case grew from 2023 campaign-account irregularities into a money-laundering investigation centered on Ternape Petroleum and unreported election spending. Former presidential candidate Luisa González spent the weekend in preventive detention in Riobamba after prosecutors charged her in the Laberinto case, an investigation that now reaches far beyond irregular campaign accounting and into an alleged […]

The failure came less than two weeks after a runway incident pushed airport safety back into public view. Cuenca’s Mariscal La Mar Airport faced another infrastructure problem this week after part of the perimeter wall on the south side of the airport collapsed, forcing new traffic restrictions around the terminal and renewing questions about the […]

The inquiry will examine festival and artistic-event contracts signed between May 2023 and February 2026. Ecuador’s National Assembly has opened a formal review of contracts for concerts, festivals and artistic events signed by the Municipality of Cuenca during the administration of suspended mayor Cristian Zamora, adding a new layer of scrutiny to a city government […]

More than 70 Azuay employers participated, offering a snapshot of where local hiring demand exists. A government-organized employment fair in Cuenca drew job seekers carrying stacks of résumés this week as more than 70 Azuay companies offered roughly 1,200 openings in fields ranging from finance and technology to tourism, manufacturing and customer service. The Encuentra […]

The debts were legally extinguished because they were small, prescribed and costly for the government to pursue. Ecuador’s Internal Revenue Service has extinguished 3,231 old tax obligations totaling about $337,800, including 825 obligations in the tax zone that covers Azuay, Cañar and Morona Santiago. The action sounds at first like a tax amnesty, but it […]

Services, manufacturing and commerce drove the latest monthly expansion reported by the Central Bank. Ecuador’s economy continued to expand in August, with the Central Bank reporting a 3.5% year-over-year increase in its monthly activity index, a broad measure used to track economic momentum before full quarterly gross domestic product figures are available. The October 19th […]

Work on the 930-meter corridor restarted this week, but the south lane still faces a months-long schedule. Residents along Avenida General Escandón are pressing the Municipality of Cuenca for answers over delays on a road project intended to improve traffic flow on the city’s west side, after sections of the corridor sat unfinished for roughly […]