Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country's most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar.
Macías, also known by the alias "Fito", is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang which is blamed for Ecuador's transformation from (...)
Spain has arrested the police chief in charge of its economic crimes unit after €20 million was found stashed in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the nation's biggest-ever cocaine bust, according to local media.
Authorities (...)
Ecuador was hit by a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, a senior government minister said, leaving some 18 million people in the dark for several hours.
The subway system in the capital, Quito, ground to a halt and traffic lights stopped working (...)
By Ana María Roura, Daniel Wittenbeg & Blanca Moncada
GUAYAQUIL — Paul has been in a gang for around half his life, since he was 15.
"Things are dangerous right now. Death can come from anywhere," Paul tells us. Small, skinny and about 30 years old, (...)
The decision by Ecuador to forcibly enter the Mexican Embassy on Saturday and arrest a former vice president of the Andean country on corruption charges represents a breach of international law, the UN Secretary-General has said.
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Soldiers are on the streets in several cities in Ecuador as the country reels from an unprecedented day of violence.
Masked gunmen stormed a public TV studio during a live broadcast in the city of Guayaquil and bombs were detonated across Ecuador on (...)
A group of armed men have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened staff, footage shows.
A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an "internal armed conflict" in the country, ordering security forces to "neutralize" several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation.
The decree came shortly (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for the South American nation after a notorious gang leader escaped from prison, heightening security fears as authorities struggle to control the bloodshed of a bloody (...)
A candidate in Sunday's presidential election in violence-hit Ecuador has called for an investigation after shooting erupted near a restaurant where he was having breakfast.
Otto Sonnenholzner, a conservative politician, was with his family and (...)
The Whatsapp message arrived on a Sunday night.
"Good evening Franki, this is the Jalisco New Generation [Mexican drugs cartel]," the message read, in barely legible Spanish. "If you block me, you'll get into problems. I need $6,000 [£4,710] — I'm (...)
Thousands of Ecuadorian soldiers and police have been involved in a dawn operation to move a notorious gang leader to a maximum-security jail.
Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito" is accused of sending death threats to Ecuador's murdered presidential (...)
Journalists across Ecuador have been targeted by explosive devices sent through the post.
One presenter, Lenin Artieda, was injured when he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom.
He said the explosive device looked like a USB drive. He (...)
At least 15 people have died and more than 400 are injured after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck Ecuador's southern coast.
Buildings were damaged in several cities when the earthquake hit at around midday local time (17:00 GMT).
The southern (...)
Police in Ecuador have found almost 8.8 tons of cocaine in a shipment of bananas bound for Belgium.
Police commander Fausto Salinas said the drugs would have been worth an estimated $330 million (£275 million) had they reached their (...)
A state of emergency and curfews have been declared in two Ecuador provinces after a series of attacks that killed five police officers.
President Guillermo Lasso said the attacks by increasingly powerful drug gangs were a declaration of war.
They (...)
At least 15 inmates were killed and 21 others injured in a prison in the Ecuadorean city of Latacunga on Monday in the latest incident of deadly jail violence in the Andean country.
The national prisons agency Snai said prisoners had fought with (...)
A new UN report has shed fresh light on the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic unleashed cascading risks, particularly on vulnerable people, worldwide.
From the mangroves of West Bengal to the vast archipelago that makes up Indonesia, and from the (...)
Ecuador will play at the 2022 World Cup after FIFA dismissed Chile's claims that they had fielded an ineligible player in the qualifiers, world soccer's governing body said on Friday.
The Chilean Football Federation last month said it had proof that (...)
Ecuador's president has declared a state of emergency in three western provinces because of rising crime.
Guillermo Lasso tweeted that a curfew will be imposed and thousands of soldiers and police officers will be sent to Guayas, Manabí and (...)
Following a series of riots which have left more than 280 inmates dead and hundreds injured in Ecuadorian prisons this year, UN independent human rights experts on Monday called for urgent government action to address the issue.
In a joint (...)
At least 58 prisoners have been killed in new fighting at an Ecuadorean prison where more than a hundred inmates died in clashes between rival gangs in September, police said.
The riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in the city of Guayaquil reportedly (...)
Ecuador plans to pardon and commute thousands of sentences in order to free up space in the country's prisons following a deadly riot at a penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil this week.
The Director of Ecuador's prison agency SNAI, Bolivar (...)
At least 116 people are now known to have died in a fight between rival gangs in Ecuador's jail, making it the worst prison violence in the country's history, BBC reported.
At least five inmates were decapitated in Tuesday's clashes in the city of (...)
Ecuador's government sought foreign mediation via the United Nations or the Catholic Church on Tuesday, after almost a week of anti-austerity protests that have forced the government to move from the capital and brought hundreds of (...)
