Ecuador slipped into recession in 2024, with its economy shrinking by 2.0%—the first contraction after three consecutive ...

In Ecuador, Indigenous communities are fighting for stronger safeguards to protect their sovereignty as more oil drilling ...

The Ecuadorian newspaper El Comercio reported power outages in Esmeraldas. The public energy company, Petroecuador, announced the suspension of activities at the Esmeraldas refinery and the SOTE ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck near the coast of Ecuador on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, injuring at least 20 people, damaging buildings in the city of ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake has struck near the coast of Ecuador, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre ...

Inside the world of Ecuador’s cocaine coast, where a network built on stealth and speed helps fishermen smuggle drugs while law enforcement tries to stop them.

Ecuadorian voters weary of crime reelected President Daniel Noboa, a conservative young millionaire with a divisive ...

But the picture soon darkened. January 2025 was Ecuador’s most violent month on record, with 781 homicides. Criminal groups remain entrenched in the country’s port cities and prisons. And human rights ...

"We are going to make history for Ecuador!" Gonzalez told supporters while voting in her hometown near the Pacific coast ... on Thursday held final campaign events in Guayaquil, the country's largest ...

"We are going to make history for Ecuador!" Gonzalez told supporters while voting in her hometown near the Pacific coast ... on Thursday held final campaign events in Guayaquil, the country's largest ...

The election has been dominated by anger over cartel violence that has transformed Ecuador from one of the safest countries in Latin America to the most deadly. On the eve of the vote ...

The first round of voting in February ended with a near tie between both candidates ... and banned foreign military bases from the country when Ecuador rewrote its constitution in 2008.