A criminal prosecutor in Ecuador was killed by armed assailants on Friday along with his police escort, in the latest ...

President Noboa announced unprecedented coca cultivation figures this week, highlighting Ecuador's role as a fledgling ...

William Alcívar Bautista, alias “Willy," was arrested in Spain with his brother Álex, alias “Ronco,” the gang's ...

Two men allegedly behind the attack on a Guayaquil television station that made global headlines and triggered Ecuador’s war ...

As the largest gangs shift their confrontations with the government to the Ecuadorian capital, it has become the scene of ...

A recent study conducted by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and the University of Santiago de Chile ...

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean police said on Wednesday that two criminal leaders involved in the storming of a TV station early this year have been captured after an operation in Spain, where they had ...

Ecuador's Interior Minister Monica Palencia on Wednesday survived an impeachment vote held after she was accused in the ...

Seven people were victims of a drive-by shooting as they were leaving a pool hall, marking the latest episode in a string of ...

Rural communities in the Andes of Colombia and Ecuador are fighting to protect fragile high-altitude wetlands that regulate ...

Ecuadorean police have captured 'Commander Willy' and his brother Alex, leaders of the criminal group Los Tiguerones, in Spain. The arrest follows their involvement in a series of violent crimes in ...

This is the first time in the IDB's history that a program specifically addresses the challenges of organized crime with several preventive and institutional measures. WASHINGTON / ECUADOR – The ...