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By Rae Witte You might not think much about your shoes when running errands—dropping the kids off, picking up groceries,...
23/08/2025

By Rae Witte You might not think much about your shoes when running errands—dropping the kids off, picking up groceries, swinging by the pharmacy. But the footwear you choose for these everyday moments could be shaping your health more than you realize. Ill-fitting footwear can worsen or cause foot ailments like bunions, corns, calluses, and toenail issues. “Your feet are the foundation of your body,” says Miguel Cunha, a podiatrist and owner of Gotham Footcare....

By Rae Witte You might not think much about your shoes when running errands—dropping the kids off, picking up groceries, swinging by the pharmacy. But the footwear you choose for […]

Three thrones grace my palatial apartment, each with its own operating procedures and temperamental flaws. One of them i...
23/08/2025

Three thrones grace my palatial apartment, each with its own operating procedures and temperamental flaws. One of them is turned off most of the time and only fired up for special ceremonial occasions or visitors. In Spanish they are called inodoros, though the word feels too polite for the mutinous behavior of my favorite. This was the inodoro with the new seat I had recently bought from Kywi — a small luxury that had turned it into my preferred perch....

Three thrones grace my palatial apartment, each with its own operating procedures and temperamental flaws. One of them is turned off most of the time and only fired up for […]

Despite repeated states of emergency declared by the government, murders have increased 43% in the first seven months of...
23/08/2025

Despite repeated states of emergency declared by the government, murders have increased 43% in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period of 2024. According to the latest National Police, statistics almost all of the increase has been recorded in Ecuador’s coastal provinces. Guayas, Manabí, El Oro, Los Rios and Esmeraldas Provinces, centers for drug trafficking, led the increase and recorded 88% of all murders, with Guayas, Manabí Provinces topping the list....

Despite repeated states of emergency declared by the government, murders have increased 43% in the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period of 2024. According to the […]

By Liam Hess The first thing I noticed when I woke up on my first morning in Quito was a physical sensation: a slight di...
22/08/2025

By Liam Hess The first thing I noticed when I woke up on my first morning in Quito was a physical sensation: a slight dizziness, a shortness of breath, a sense of fatigue after returning from a long (and very jet-lagged) morning walk around the city’s La Carolina park. And no, this isn’t because I was overcome by the sheer beauty of the place — although Quito is indeed very beautiful — but mostly because the Ecuadorian capital is one of the highest altitude major cities in the world....

By Liam Hess The first thing I noticed when I woke up on my first morning in Quito was a physical sensation: a slight dizziness, a shortness of breath, a […]

By Micheal Fox On a Saturday morning in mid-July, hundreds of students sat in an outdoor amphitheater in Quito, Ecuador....
22/08/2025

By Micheal Fox On a Saturday morning in mid-July, hundreds of students sat in an outdoor amphitheater in Quito, Ecuador. In the center, flowers, fruits and vegetables were laid out on the ground — an offering to Pachamama, commonly translated as “Mother Earth,” from the Quechua language. This was a meeting of the country’s first and only Indigenous university, Amawtay Wasi, which translates to “House of Knowledge” in Kichwa, Ecuador’s primary Indigenous language....

By Micheal Fox On a Saturday morning in mid-July, hundreds of students sat in an outdoor amphitheater in Quito, Ecuador. In the center, flowers, fruits and vegetables were laid out […]

Three National Police officers were released by an indigenous court Thursday night after apologizing to former Confedera...
22/08/2025

Three National Police officers were released by an indigenous court Thursday night after apologizing to former Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) president Leonidas Iza. The officers, identified as Carlos Uvidia, Bryan Díaz and Kevin Guamán, admitted that they had “invaded indigenous territory for the purpose of carrying out surveillance activities” on Iza. The three men had been held by indigenous leaders of the Planchaloma parish, in Cotopaxi Province, since Monday when they were accused by Iza of threatening his life....

Three National Police officers were released by an indigenous court Thursday night after apologizing to former Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (Conaie) president Leonidas Iza. The officers, identified as […]

This article is part of “Facelift Ecuador: Share Your Positive Story!“, an initiative to publish positive articles from ...
21/08/2025

This article is part of “Facelift Ecuador: Share Your Positive Story!“, an initiative to publish positive articles from CuencaHighLife readers. If you would like to submit your story, click here. By STeve Wenzel Greetings CuencaHighLife, My name is STeve, a Canadian retiree working towards my PR status here in Ecuador. Been travelling all over the country since Nov....

This article is part of “Facelift Ecuador: Share Your Positive Story!“, an initiative to publish positive articles from CuencaHighLife readers. If you would like to submit your story, click here. By […]

By Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu Building a machine more intelligent than ourselves. It’s a centuries-old theme, inspiring ...
21/08/2025

By Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu Building a machine more intelligent than ourselves. It’s a centuries-old theme, inspiring equal amounts of awe and dread, from the agents in “The Matrix” to the operating system in “Her.” To many in Silicon Valley, this compelling fictional motif is on the verge of becoming reality. Reaching artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I. (or going a step further, superintelligence), is now the singular aim of America’s tech giants, which are investing tens of billions of dollars in a fevered race....

By Eric Schmidt and Selina Xu Building a machine more intelligent than ourselves. It’s a centuries-old theme, inspiring equal amounts of awe and dread, from the agents in “The Matrix” to the operating system […]

The government on Tuesday sent a letter to the Constitutional Court ordering it to vacate its Quito headquarters. On Wed...
21/08/2025

The government on Tuesday sent a letter to the Constitutional Court ordering it to vacate its Quito headquarters. On Wednesday, it sent court president Jhoel Escudero another letter advising him to ignore the previous order. Critics are calling the turn of events an act of intimidation by the government in its conflict with the court over its ruling suspending parts of three laws that President Daniel Noboa claims are essential for combating organized crime....

The government on Tuesday sent a letter to the Constitutional Court ordering it to vacate its Quito headquarters. On Wednesday, it sent court president Jhoel Escudero another letter advising him […]

By Ricardo Pérez Indigenous nations from Ecuador and Peru have issued a strong rejection of a recently announced agreeme...
21/08/2025

By Ricardo Pérez Indigenous nations from Ecuador and Peru have issued a strong rejection of a recently announced agreement between state-owned oil companies Petroperú and Petroecuador to connect Ecuador’s southern Amazon oil blocks to the Norperuvian Pipeline. Leaders denounced the deal – unveiled by Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on July 28 – as a blatant violation of national and international laws guaranteeing their right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent....

By Ricardo Pérez Indigenous nations from Ecuador and Peru have issued a strong rejection of a recently announced agreement between state-owned oil companies Petroperú and Petroecuador to connect Ecuador’s southern Amazon […]

When I first came to Cuenca, I made the mistake of asking people what the summers were like. The puzzled looks I got wer...
20/08/2025

When I first came to Cuenca, I made the mistake of asking people what the summers were like. The puzzled looks I got were almost as sharp as when I once asked a taxi driver if he’d ever considered raising his fares. “Summer?” they said, as if I’d asked what they thought of Martian winters. Cuenca doesn’t have summer or winter....

When I first came to Cuenca, I made the mistake of asking people what the summers were like. The puzzled looks I got were almost as sharp as when I […]

By Pam Belluck Sometimes the pain felt like lightning bolts. Or snakes biting. Or needles. “Just imagine the worst burn ...
20/08/2025

By Pam Belluck Sometimes the pain felt like lightning bolts. Or snakes biting. Or needles. “Just imagine the worst burn you’ve ever had, all over your body, never going away,” said Ed Mowery, 55, describing his life with chronic pain. “I would wake up in the middle of night, screaming at the top of my lungs.” Beginning with a severe knee injury he got playing soccer at 15, he underwent about 30 major surgeries for various injuries over the decades, including procedures on his knees, spine and ankles....

By Pam Belluck Sometimes the pain felt like lightning bolts. Or snakes biting. Or needles. “Just imagine the worst burn you’ve ever had, all over your body, never going away,” said […]

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