Cuenca High Life News Updates

By Jeronimo Giorgi We have overcome darker times before”, were the closing words of former Costa Rican president Luis Guillermo Solís on October 4, addressing the decline of the democratic state in Latin America. For the eighth consecutive year, more countries worldwide recorded declines in democratic indicators than those showing… Read more »

The headline above is borrowed from a notice posted on a bookstore window in San Anselmo, California. More than a few news programs in the media recently sparkled with airbrushed images of despicable political louts facing serious legal trouble, followed by celebrity breakups and how to get those washboard abs… Read more »

The Constitutional Court will consider a suit challenging President Daniel Noboa’s temporary transfer of presidential power to Cynthia Gellibert but rejected another case which questioned Noboa’s replacement of Vice President Verónica Abad with Gellibert. The three judges of the court’s Admission Chamber who admitted the suit against presidential decree 500… Read more »

Cuenca not only has the best drinking water in Ecuador, it also has the cleanest rivers. A report on water quality by government biologists and hydrologists, credits the the sewage pollution plant in Ucubamba with drastically improving river quality levels. Until the plant went on-line 14 years ago, much of… Read more »

Editor’s note: This is the fourth of a four-part series about professionally guided psychedelic therapy sessions that Cuenca expat C.P James and his wife participated in at a retreat in the nearby Yunguilla Valley. To read part one, click here; part two, click here; part three, click here. The articles are reposted… Read more »

Jueves, 9/1/2025 Hola, Todos – Actividades – Sinfónica en Pumapungo (Symphony at Pumapungo) – The Orquesta Sinfónica de Cuenca will start its 2025 season with the “Adagios Famosos” concert conducted by Augusto Carrión Rodas el viernes, 10/1 a las 20:00 in the Teatro Pumapungo. The 2nd concert of the season… Read more »

By Economist Leaders staff For many people, the new year brings both a banging hangover and a solemn resolution never to get drunk again. More than a decade ago Alcohol Change UK, which campaigns to cut drinking, launched its “Dry January” campaign. This year it reckons a third of British… Read more »

By John Surico Almost every night, after he helps put his kid to bed, Joshua Blanton drives across his hometown of Ashland, Kentucky, to look at a roundabout. Five were installed along one of its main commercial stretches this year, replacing five stoplights and reducing four traffic lanes to two.… Read more »

By Michael Rios and Stefano Pozzebon Venezuela is set to inaugurate a head of state on Friday – but there are still two men claiming to be the nation’s rightful president. Incumbent Nicolás Maduro is scheduled to attend a swearing-in ceremony on January 10 to begin his third term in… Read more »

Weather forecasters are predicting more rain into the weekend but say a drying trend could begin by Sunday. “We advise residents to take preventive measures for heavy to moderate rain in the next three to four days,” ETAPA meteorologist Lenin Alvarez warned Wednesday. “Rain will be the heaviest in the… Read more »