Ecuadorians vote Sunday for the country's next president as drug-related cartel and mafia violence run rampant. 'Iron fist' ...

Carlos D was the second-in-command of Los Lobos (The Wolves) and "considered a high-value target," the armed forces said in a ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

A leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates Los ... The move came after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio and bandits threatened random executions of civilians and security ...

Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South American ...

In 2024, gunmen besieged the TC Television studio during a live broadcast, taking hostages in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Police freed the hostages and arrested 13 people in the incident. Hamas frees ...

This week alone, masked gunmen arrested a former presidential candidate, a prominent free speech activist and the son-in-law of self-exiled opposition leader González. González, who handily won ...

On January 12, assassins killed Eber Ponce, the mayor of Arenillas, a municipality in the south of the province near Ecuador’s border with Peru. The politician was driving his van with his 6-year-old ...

QUITO, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa looks set to win a full four-year term in the Feb. 9 election, likely after a runoff contest against leftist Luisa Gonzalez, several ...