Ecuador's attorney general's office is investigating eight extrajudicial killings reported to have taken place during the country's most recent state of emergency, after rights groups warned ...

Ecuador's president says country is at war with drug gangs 03:15. The director of Ecuador's biggest prison was killed in an armed attack on Thursday, the second such killing in under two weeks in ...

QUITO, Ecuador — A seventh man accused in the August assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate was killed inside a prison in Ecuador's capital, authorities said Saturday, a day after ...

Ecuador's president says country is at war with drug gangs 03:15. Ecuadoran gangsters abducted, interrogated and killed five tourists, apparently thinking they were members of a rival drug gang ...

QUITO, Ecuador — The six men arrested as suspects in the assassination of an anti-corruption Ecuadorean presidential candidate are Colombian nationals, a police report said Thursday as ...

Between 2021 and 2022, Ecuador’s homicide rate rose from 13.7 to over 25 per 100,000, the highest rate in Ecuador’s history, and significantly higher than the global average of 6 per 100,000.

QUITO, Ecuador — An Ecuadorian presidential candidate known for speaking up against corruption was shot and killed Wednesday at a political rally in the capital amid a wave of startling violence ...

The brazen assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a crowded political rally Wednesday night deepened the country's sense of vulnerability to the crime that's ...

QUITO, Ecuador — A landslide surged over a highway in central Ecuador on Sunday, killing at least six people and leaving 30 others missing, authorities said as heavy rains pummeled the country ...

A suspect in the 1999 assassination of a leftist former Ecuadorean presidential candidate was handed over to U.S. immigration officials after being arrested in a routine traffic stop in the hamlet ...

Ecuador removes, investigates security officials after killings of suspects in candidate assassination By Reuters October 7, 2023 10:53 PM UTC Updated October 7, 2023 ...

The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential runoff election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.