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

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.

Colonel Porfirio Cedeno was shot multiple times in Guayaquil while travelling to a military ceremony, according to police ...

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

Noboa, first elected in 2023 to finish out his predecessor’s term, says his deployment of the military on the streets and ...

Both are from Ecuador and had known each other since primary school, according to the outlet. Prosecutor Alphonse Williams told The Post-Standard of Syracuse the suspect was staying at an Airbnb ...

Confrontations between rival gangs have led to numerous prison massacres in Ecuador since 2020, with more than 400 inmates killed. The violence has also spilled over into the streets, with ...

“It was murder” said the Ecuador leader in his weekly broadcast report when talking about the killing last Thursday in Sirte, his home town, of Gaddafi who was “captured alive” and in a ...

A person is killed every two hours in Ecuador and seven are kidnapped daily, according to government figures. That's why security is the top issue for voters ahead of the first round of the ...