Cuenca, Ecuador News

With the mountains of Cuenca - Ecuador's third-largest city and a United Nations World Heritage site - serving as a backdrop, children run energetically up and down a long concrete staircase, around the cones, and back again. They are part of a children's athletic program at Ecuador's famous Escuela de Marcha, a race-walking school that produced the country's only Olympic medalist, Jefferson Perez.

Three of the children have come to the school under very different circumstances from the others. They are Colombian, and their families have recently arrived in the tranquil Andean city as refugees.

Enrique Cunas, top left, waits with a fellow day laborer. Rosa Martinez used to stroll to the local money transfer office in Corona every week to send $200 to her family in Cuenca , Ecuador .

Some 20 cities in Latin America have launched high-level urban projects in the past year and some other 20 cities have worked out plans to change urban residents' life in the coming years.

Early childhood education students can now travel to Cuenca, Ecuador for their final fall semester at UW-Whitewater due to an exchange agreement signed April 21.

Esteban Mendieta wonders why news from the Ecuadorian city of Cuenca rarely makes the national newspapers [es] , such as the important long distance running race "Las Cruces" that is celebrating its 45th edition.

Deportivo Cuenca of Ecuador earned a 2-1 comeback victory at home against Venezuela's 10-man Caracas in the Copa Libertadores knockout round of 16 on Thursday.

AP Boca Juniors of Argentina and Ecuador's Deportivo Cuenca clinched the last two places in the Copa Libertadores round of 16 on Thursday.

The Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador, continues its consolidation process as a forum open to all expressions of contemporary visual arts with no reservations regarding format or medium.

Quito, Apr 20 Ecuadorian presidential candidates closed their campaigns on Monday, six days before the general elections, which have been deemed to be the most complex in history.

The Holy Father appointed Fr. Luis Cabrera Herrera O.F.M., definer general of his order, as metropolitan archbishop of Cuenca , Ecuador.

MIAMI, April 6 /CNW/ -- Today, LAN ECUADOR begins domestic operations uniting Guayaquil and Quito, the country's largest cities.

Tempe Sister Cities will celebrate the induction of its newest sister city, Cuenca, Ecuador, at a "Southwest Tapas" celebration on Friday, April 3, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Hackett House, 95 W. Fourth St.

The Holy Father Benedict XVI, on March 25, 2009, appointed Father Walter Jehowa Heras Segarra, O.F.M., Provincial Minister and Vice-President of the Ecuadorian Conference of Religious, Apostolic Vicar of Zamora, assigning him the titular see of Vazari.

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Hometown: Originally from New Holstein, in Madison since 1978. Age: 65 Occupation: Retired assistant attorney general Hobbies: Fly fishing and tying fishing flies, foreign travel, cooking, sea kayaking.

Relatives of Jose Sucuzhanay carry his coffin draped with Ecuador's flag during his funeral in Cuenca, Ecuador, Dec.

Art Redmond may have left this world, but his friends and family want to continue his desire to help others.

Guido Salvador Carabajo-Jara died after being struck by a car and then dragged for 20 miles by a second vehicle, from Corona Queens to Brighton Beach Brooklyn, police said.

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Some local immigrants have returned to their native countries or are planning to leave because of the lack of work.