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New panoramic cameras with AI-powered detection, license plate recognition at every major entry and exit point, and the country's largest AI monitoring room — all connected to ECU 911. Cuenca continues to invest heavily in safety while staying out of any state of emergency.

Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso's budget has been slashed from $49 million to potentially under $31 million. Emergency rooms have less than 50% of essential medications. Doctors are sounding alarms. Here's the situation and what it means for expats.

Pumaspungo Resto Bar on the Paseo Tres de Noviembre was broken into during the Carnaval holiday. Thieves entered through the roof while the restaurant was closed. Business owners in El Centro are now organizing community alarm systems.

The city's security director admitted that most cameras you see in El Centro are just traffic counters, not crime-prevention tools. A new 'Cuenca Segura' project will install 63 cameras at 29 strategic points. Here's what's changing and what it means for safety in the neighborhoods you walk every day.

A proposed emergency economic law would force municipalities to spend 70% of their budgets on infrastructure, slashing funding for social services. Azuay's prefecture is among those pushing back hard.

The Consejo de Seguridad Ciudadana has deployed 90 new surveillance cameras and announced 400 additional community alarms for Cuenca neighborhoods, while multi-agency coordination ramps up ahead of Carnival.

Numbeo's mid-year safety index ranks Cuenca as the safest major city in South America, with a safety score of 54.05—great news for expats considering the move.