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

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa replaced the Interior Minister in charge of public safety and appointed a retired police ...

Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime ...

Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeño, who led an air force special operations unit, was the passenger in a van when more than 20 shots were fired.

Hitmen gunned down an Ecuadoran air force colonel Friday in a city hard hit by drug crime that has turned the once-peaceful ...

"You can see and feel that the population is afraid," says Navy Captain Carlos Carrera from the Gulf of Guayaquil, a bastion ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by Ecuador’s largest domestic organized crime ring, Los Lobos, after calling for a ...

Ecuador will choose its next president in a presidential runoff election after conservative President Daniel Noboa and ...

The president of violence-hit Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, claimed his razor-thin lead Monday in first-round voting as a win, ...