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Carlos Molina: Women’s Shoes Are Art Works

By: Ma. Fernanda Soria @mafersoria What to wear on our feet? That is one of the questions we ask ourselves everyday, then we go to our wardrobe and start looking for the pair of shoes that will dress our feet. It depends on the ocassion, it could be work, school, a party, a job...
Posted On 09 Apr 2011
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Alex Jimbo: “Being a musician is a work of considerable merits”

By: Ma. Fernanda Soria @mafersoria We talked to Alex Jimbo, a young 24-year-old violinist, member of the Guayaquil Symphony Orchestra and, recently, member of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra.   Most children played ball, rode tricycles or cried for an ice cream when they were...
Posted On 26 Feb 2011
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“Figu”: A hundred views of one world

The world and the environment that surrounds us look have another perspective through the pictures of Carlos “Figu” Garcia, an independent Ecuadorian photographer that exposes the world and the environment through his pictures. Using just the lens of his camera, “Figu” has had...
Posted On 19 Feb 2011
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Jorge Saade: “We Must Turn Museums Into Icons of The City”

By: Ma. Fernanda Soria @mafersoria We interviewed Jorge Saade Scaff, who is considered the greatest violinist of Ecuador and one of the best in Latin America, he was recently named as the Cultural Director of Guayaquil, on January 19th this year. The Minister of Culture, Erika...
Posted On 06 Feb 2011
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Aglae and Gloria Febres-Cordero, Dance Lovers and Community Supporters

Aglae and Gloria Febres-Cordero studied ballet since childhood, when they finished their higher education they had a vision: to create a ballet school, which was installed at their home in 2002 with the help of their parents. Four years after founding Eptea, which is the school...
Posted On 22 Jan 2011
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Roberto Ibanez: an Ecuadorian Judo Champion for the World

Roberto Ibañez name is associated with the judo fighting style nationally and internationally. Ibañez was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador. At a very young age he started to train the judo as a martial discipline, because his father and uncles shared it as family tradition. When...
Posted On 12 Jan 2011
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Eduardo Peña: “My plan is to have a 21st Century Chamber of Commerce”

By: Ma. Fernanda Soria @mafersoria It is no coincidence that some of the most representative businessmen of the city are members of the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce, a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote trade development, sources of wealth and business. The Chamber...
Posted On 06 Jan 2011
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Robots Arrive to Educational Institutions

The innovation arrived to High school San José La Salle, one of the first institutions that make students apply the acquired knowledge in robotics. Students in 5th and 6th year -with the guidance of their teacher, Eric Lamilla- worked for six months in their creations to compete...
Posted On 09 Dec 2010
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Fabrizio Celleri: “The most important thing in fashion is to find a style”

By: Ma. Fernanda Soria @mafersoria We interviewed Fabrizio Celleri, one of the featured designers in this week’s Designer Book event. Ecuadorian fashion designer Fabrizio Celleri began his career in April 1997, he decided to do what he always liked for a living, he studied...
Posted On 22 Nov 2010
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., The Advocate of the Environment

Atty. Alvaro Noboa sponsored a conference from the Environmental Activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on Thursday. Ecuador Times transcribed Mr. Kennedy’s relevant words of the speech. “The nature is the infrastructure of our community, and that if we want to meet our...
Posted On 13 Nov 2010
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