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“I became involved with the fitness lifestyle when I realized how important athletics was for the daily life.” Harold Castedo. The desire to be able to make and overcome any physical challenge was the main motivation for Harold, an Ecuadorian living in Miami, Florida for 20...

More than 45 thousand fans dressed in yellow last night at the Banco Pichincha Monumental Stadium to the most exciting match of the 16 date National Soccer Championship, where the Barcelona Sporting Club faced the Liga de Quito. In the first half, the visiting team was dominated...

Her bed is next to a sewing machine and small pieces of children’s clothing line adorn the walls of her room, she “has sewn all her life,” says Victoria Lavayen, daughter in law of Luisa Flores, a seamstress who dresses many children in La 27 and La B streets...

Today the Ecuadorian weightlifter Jorge David Arroyo, 20 years, won a gold medal for his country in the 2011 Panamerican Games in Guadalajara, Mexico after lifting a total of 395 kilos (185 in snatch and 210 in clean and jerk). Arroyo has won three gold medals at the World Junior...

This morning, Ecuadorian weightlifter, Ricardo Flores Quishpe, 24, won the silver medal in the 77 kilograms. weightlifting at the 2011 Panamerican Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. After eleven days of competition, Flores scored a total of 329 kg., ranking the second place finish,...

Besides taking care of her mother and son, she dedicates to sewing, Rosa Holguin lives in La Floresta 3 and manufactures handbags for a living. She did a sewing course two years ago and now teaches her friends in the neighborhood, however she can not devote herself to work...

At the Cooperative Carlos Castro, at Guasmo of Guayaquil, lives a small shoe businessman, Luis Taolombo Muñoz. He is from Riobamba and arrived to Guayaquil when he was still a teenager, looking for a better future. His brother in law was a shoemaker and he decided to follow in...

The Ecuadorian weightlifter, Maria Alexandra Escobar won the first gold medal for Ecuador in the 2011 Panamerican Games in Guadalajara, Mexico. After promising his son Dominic, 5, she would win the gold medal, Escobar won the 58 kg category weightlifting test. The Colombian...

This morning concluded the first edition of Campus Party in Quito, Ecuador, where over 2000 young technology enthusiasts visited the exhibitions, exchanged experiences, interacted with technology and received lectures from world-renowned speakers in the Middle of the World...

Alvaro Noboa and Crusade for a New Humanity Foundation (FCNH for its Spanish acronym) continued to help with donations for people in need in the city of Guayaquil. Most of the people who received aid last week, came to ask for help due to health reasons. Some of them needed...