In one incident, gunmen on motorcycles fired into a crowd gathered outside a grocery store, killing a child and six adults, ...

Colonel Porfirio Cedeno was shot dead in his pickup truck on the way to a military celebration, with the country's police ...

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa claimed, without evidence, that the first round of the country’s presidential race was rife ...

Five people were later imprisoned for his murder, with prosecutors accusing two of them of being members of the notorious Los ...

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are ...

President Daniel Noboa, who is known for his aggressive law-and-order policies, failed to win a majority of votes in his ...

Noboa says his deployment of the military on the streets and within prisons has reduced violent deaths by 15%, led to a ...

Ecuador’s presidential election is shaping up to be a repeat of the 2023 race when voters chose a conservative young ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — People on the streets of Ecuador can rattle off the places they have encountered criminals: On the bus, at the park, on the sidewalk, in a cab, by the mall, next to a ...

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

Voting is mandatory in Ecuador. More than 13.7 million people are eligible to vote. On Thursday, thousands of inmates who ...

Correa “disdained Indigenous people,” said Perdomo, adding that now the local community is waiting for instructions from the leadership of the confederation of Indigenous peoples of Ecuador to ...