When Manuel Barrera was a kid and went to school walking tomorrow amid those icy winds that usually wrap the city, there were two things he always did on the way: cross himself before the Cruz del Vado and put your hands awhile to any wood ovens with bread to diminish the cold.

Two parakeets canary wing a long-eared owl and a turtle motelo were rescued this month in places where they are kept as pets. Wild animals are quarantined in the bioparque Amaru and the center of avifauna Pumapungo.

Yesterday morning ended placing new asphalt on the runway of the airport Mariscal Lamar. The change occurred in the 1,900 meters long and 15 wide, as described in the contract that the Municipality of Cuenca signed with the company Hidalgo & Hidalgo.

Yesterday bookstores and shops in the city uniforms sported crowded with parents. All, with list in hand, seeking the best prices within a day they start the new school year.

At present there are nutritious alternatives to maintain a healthy diet with new bets, such as food and organic products that are fashionable, as more and more people bet on them instead of products made by unnatural techniques or chemical additives .

With the aim of creating a tourism development project in Santa Ana, Cuenca Canton, the Autonomous Government Decentralized this parish signed an interagency agreement with the Provincial Chamber of Tourism of Azuay.

Twenty artisans associations, Teje Women and San Juan de Bacpancel, Gualaceo Canton, receive advice and encouragement to work, by the Ecuadorian designer based in London, Maria Cuji, who now dictate them entreayer and a workshop.

Knowing the risk and protective factors against drug use was the reason that yesterday summoned officials from the Ministry of Health of Azuay, Canar and Morona Santiago to a training workshop.

Tram works and interventions to improve roads in several parts of the city preoccupy managers and parents, especially in institutions that are surrounded by works that are still running.

To the three-day holiday that starts tomorrow, the options for those who stay or come to the city are varied. The main alternatives are visits to the historic center, but also the Cajas National Park.

Control agencies and relief activated an operational plan to safeguard the physical integrity of citizens who mobilized to mark the holiday by August 10 and the pilgrimage to the Virgin of the Swan.

In the afternoon Fire Department personnel managed to rescue a dog that was left for unknown reasons on a slope.

This morning environmental authorities conducted an operation control in the field of Free Fair, where plants and animals were seized.

The recent death of a baby in Houston (Texas, USA) was due to microcephaly associated with Zika virus, health officials said.

Little died shortly after birth, becoming the first victim of the Zika virus in Texas, confirmed the State Commissioner of Health Services, John Hellerstedt.

In the halls of maximum security, internal display posters calling attention to their needs. TIME

With banners placed on the walls of the pavilions maximum security and screams coming from the cells, yesterday morning the inmates of Social Rehabilitation Center, CRS, Turi South Regional Center expressed their unease about alleged mistreatment.

During a night tour, the inhabitants exposed to the authorities insecurity problems affecting the traditional neighborhood El Vecino. Armando Suquisupa

The inhabitants of El Vecino are determined to combat the problem of insecurity and thereby change the stigma red zone of the traditional neighborhood, which is characterized by an interesting story on which the city stands.

According to the DGAC, the track Cuenca no guarantees for flights wet track, so that an intervention is necessary.

To lift the restriction that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, DGCA, imposed on the track Mariscal Lamar Airport is inevitable perform improvement work.