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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.
New fuel prices took effect April 12 and will stay until May 11. Extra and Ecopaís are up to $3.024/gallon, diesel to $2.962/gallon, and Super (no subsidy) sits at $4.57/gallon. Transportistas are already sounding worried.
Cuenca marked 469 years since its founding with the traditional Sesión Solemne at the Salón de la Ciudad on April 12, 2026. Mayor Cristian Zamora's centerpiece: turn Cuenca into a regional public health hub built on municipal hospitals that double as research centers.
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.
Residents of Los Olivos and San Lucas in the San José de Balzay sector say they've been promised pavement on the same ~3 km road for about ten years. The most recent promise from the Prefectura del Azuay pointed to May-June. Families are still breathing dust.
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.
Rare night for Cuenca's rock scene. Ruta del Rock celebrates its three-year anniversary tonight with 'El Ritual' at Hacienda San Diego — Santamuerte headlines with their new album, plus As de Picas, Black Purple, and Boca de Serpiente from Colombia. 8 PM, $20.
Ecuador's weather service is calling Friday's UV radiation in Azuay 'extremely high' — the top category on the scale. INAMHI specifically flags 10 AM to 3 PM as peak exposure. Here's what that actually means at 2,550 meters.
