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 ...

Quietly stationed near the Galápagos Islands ... to make this the deadliest year in the country’s history. InSight Crime, an organization that tracks and investigates crime in the Americas, now ranks ...

Support for Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez's call for a recount in the country's presidential election was dwindling on ...

A conservative young millionaire who is Ecuador ‘s incumbent president and a leftist lawyer are again the choices as Ecuadorians head to the polls on Sunday in the ...

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 ...