An explosion outside the Litoral Penitentiary, Ecuador's most dangerous prison, left one guard dead and two injured on ...

The United States has deported hundreds of migrants to El Salvador where they have been placed in the notorious CECOT prison ...

A prison warden was shot and killed in Ecuador on Sunday, as Ecuadorians headed to the polls for a referendum on a series of measures to tackle gang violence and unrest gripping the South American ...

Communities in the canton of Archidona, in Ecuador’s Amazon province of Napo, block highways to protest the construction of a ...

Five inmates were found dead Friday at Ecuador's biggest prison, the SNAI prison agency said, a day after fatal clashes between rival gangs erupted in the same port city of Guayaquil.

Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias El Fito, is the leader of the feared Los Choneros criminal gang in Ecuador and escaped prison in January of last year. He broke out during a wave of violence that ...