US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived in Ecuador on Wednesday to tour its military facilities, days before the ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) strongly condemns the murder of community journalist Álex Fernando Álvarez Vera on 28 October ...

Ecuador's chaotic gang landscape in Nueva Prosperina and Duran sees spiking violence as criminal groups splinter after ...

Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador's most violent city ...

The death toll of the March shoot-out in several houses in Nueva Prosperina, one of Guayaquil's most violent neighborhoods, was 22.

Residents of a town in western Ecuador elected a man as their new mayor on Sunday just hours after he was assassinated. Mayoral candidate Omar Menendez took more than 46% of the vote in Sunday's ...

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador ...

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, ...

Ecuador released a man who survived a U.S. strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel after finding no evidence that he had committed a crime, officials said.

(CNN) — Voters in Ecuador are casting their ballots in a presidential runoff election between conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González – a race overshadowed by drug-fueled ...

Court records show the man is in the U.S. on an Ecuadorian passport. A judge ordered him to be held at the Palm Beach County ...

Ecuador’s president announced unprecedented coca cultivation figures this week, highlighting the country’s role as a fledgling cocaine producer, though uncertainty remains as to the true extent of ...