After a pleasant meeting in the living room of the Tomalá family home, which celebrated its first 100 years this July, between cultural managers and citizens interested in the care, conservation, restoration and enhancement of our province's heritage assets, the Citizen Oversight Committee was formed […]
Once upon a time, there was a very disobedient boy whom his family called "the No Boy," because whenever they told him something, he always did the opposite. If they told him to get up, he stayed in bed; if they told him to get dressed, he stayed in his pajamas. And so on and so forth. He spent hours watching television […]
MAGICAL SUNSET (Pico Loco, Ballenita, Ruta del Sol) Detail of a sculpture by the sea. Only in Ballenita. (Photo: Edu Mitoui) Beach (Pta. Murciélago area). Popular with bodyboarders (Ballenita, Sta. Elena, Ruta del Sol). Photo: Israel García Spectacular work by a Mexican artist on the cliff rock (Glorieta area) WHERE TO STAY AND […]
The archaeological heritage of La Libertad, one of the largest in Ecuador, since it covers almost the entire central area of this very active city on the Santa Elena Peninsula, is at risk of being destroyed for several reasons, including: 1: The lack of mandatory presence of a […]
In South Africa, the World Cup continues to gather pace, and cleaner modes of transportation and other strategies have been incorporated as an environmental measure. But are they enough? It's estimated that the first World Cup to be played on the African continent will leave a carbon footprint eight times larger than that of Germany […]
We continue to receive stories and other writings from our readers. We will continue to publish them as space and time allow. The following was sent to us by Mario Silva Wong, a physician and supporter of the magazine. Dr. Mario Silva Wong: “The service of our career is in our hands, but the gift comes to us from […]
With the participation of more than 40 people, most of them members of the Hermandad Juvenil Solidaria (Solidarity Youth Brotherhood) but also members of the Ballenita community, the clean-up minga took place yesterday from 9 a.m. for more than an hour in the […]
On the occasion of the global call for #5 by Sursystem, where they request URBAN IMAGINARIES OF THE GLOBALIZED CITY, and in view of all the massive propaganda that is being given to this year as the Bicentennial (of independence), I "dusted off" from my hard drive some notes I had about something that always caught my attention […]
Millions of fans, music lovers, casual enthusiasts, followers of Rastafarianism, and the general public celebrate today at sunset with the Natural Mystic that drifts through the air, the sounds that this prophet, for many, but definitely an undeniable musical icon, left us as a legacy with messages from the island of Jamaica […]
We see the protests in Quito against the proposed Water Law on the news every day, but the public is unaware of what these movements are demanding and what is at stake. Now, from Ballenita, we share with you the nine "critical issues" that, according to several organizations, are the […]
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