Throw butter on the roof

Former President Osvaldo Hurtado recounts in his book The customs of Ecuadorians the following anecdote: "I met a widow from Quito who owned an immense large estate, among other goods, who moved her residence to Paris and many years later ended her life in Quito in absolute poverty. She told me that she and her three children, accompanied by a servant, boarded in the port of La Libertad the boat that took them to France ‘wearing yellow shoes’, b…

One injured person and another deceased left a traffic accident recorded early this Saturday, March 29, 2025, in the south of Quito, reported the Integrated Security Service ECU 911. The entry One injured person and another deceased leaves sinister in the Villaflora, in Quito was first published in Teleamazonas.

On Thursday, 27 March, the Public Prosecutor's Office reported that it was able to change a sentence of five to ten years in prison by determining that the crime corresponded to death by a drunk driver and not to the criminal type of culpable death. The authorities identified the author as Jhonny Gustabo G.B., who caused the death of a man and injuries to his son in a traffic accident, which occurred on 8 April 2023, in the Las Casas sector, in …