In this second installment, featuring material shared by archaeologist Erick López, we will analyze some legal aspects regarding this property, but also applicable to other heritage sites on the peninsula. We will soon investigate with local authorities the reasons for the apparent "apathy" on this issue. The Ecuadorian Constitution, Article 379 […]
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We are grateful for the valuable contribution of Eric K López (Archaeologist) for this impeccable historical research on one of the icons of the city of La Libertad. Throughout history, human centers with a city-like projection grow, organize, and shape the cultural landscape of their surroundings with architectural elements in keeping with their idiosyncrasies, culture, and technology […]
I had the opportunity to meet Luiggiman Farfrompüken TheStrange (Luiggi Paolo Raffo) virtually a couple of months ago (I hope to greet him in person soon, and not just through one of those twenty-first-century gadgets). Just listening to his stage name reveals something of a personality that, little by little, as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 recall the poetic work in Amelia Pinoargote's book Intimamente azul (Intimately Blue). From the seaside shore, the old wind yawns and mournfully sings to us its song of sweet complaints. It slumbers... like the white grandmother in the stories, a quiet and gentle city: the town of Santa Elena. Two towers add a prayerful accent to the landscape, and its […]
The Ministry of Culture of Santa Elena, in order to contribute to the preservation of traditions and support residents who have decided to preserve their ancestral memories by passing them on to children, invites the general public to join the communities in celebrating their festivals with visits to […]
Thousands of people around the world commemorate today the second anniversary of the departure from our dimension of Dr. Albert Hofmann Hofmann (January 11, 1906 – April 29, 2008) was a Swiss chemist and intellectual, famous for having synthesized LSD for the first time, while studying the alkaloids produced by ergot, and which he himself described as "a […]
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