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Community stories, culture, and human interest from the expat community in Cuenca.
April 13 is Día del Maestro in Ecuador. El Mercurio spoke with Cuenca educators reshaping their classrooms with digital platforms and AI — and they describe their new role as guides, not authorities. Worth reading if you have school-age kids here.
Cuencana Paula Torres just won the women's marathon at the 2026 World Race Walking Team Championships, setting a new championship record of 3:24:37 over 42 km — on April 12, Cuenca's founding day. Ecuador took gold and bronze. Her name needs to be in your head.
If you've walked past Cuenca's Chola Cuencana monument, you've already seen Virgilio Quinde Tacuri's work. A new retrospective of the sculptor's career, 'Un Siglo de Arte y Pasión,' is open at the Salón del Pueblo in El Centro through April 30. Free entry.
Students from Instituto Sudamericano turned the murals at Casa de las Palomas into an interactive AR experience. Free, in El Centro, and today — Friday April 10 — is the final day. Closes at 9 PM.
Students from the Técnico Salesiano school in Cuenca brought home three silver medals from a national Artificial Intelligence olympiad. Not bad for a city better known for its colonial architecture than its tech scene.
Two-month-old twins from a remote Shuar community in Morona Santiago are fighting for their lives in separate Cuenca hospitals after a three-day journey on foot just to reach medical care. Their story highlights the healthcare gap facing Ecuador's indigenous communities.
La Tri faces the 7th-ranked Netherlands at Philips Stadion in Eindhoven this afternoon. Both teams are headed to the World Cup this summer. Here's what you need to know and where to watch in Cuenca.
Ecuador's Festival Nacional de la Cancion is accepting entries for 2026. Twelve finalists will perform with the Loja Symphonic Orchestra in June, with the winner taking home $5,000 and a trip to Uruguay. One catch: no AI-composed music.
A viral video of a man with a guitar getting stopped by a tram controller has Cuenca talking — and it turns out there's a whole list of things you can't do on the tranvia that most people have never heard of.
