SAN LORENZO, Ecuador, April 12 (UNHCR) - Senor Padilla, his wife and two of their children escaped to the small Ecuadorean port of San Lorenzo in late February, joining the growing number of people ...

SAN LORENZO, Ecuador, August 29 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency is working with local authorities, sister agencies and other partners to help hundreds of Colombians who have fled an outbreak of ...

SAN LORENZO, Ecuador (AlertNet) - Every month 1,200 to 1,500 Colombians cross the invisible border along mountain paths and rivers to escape violence and seek refuge in Ecuador’s northern provinces.

On February 17, just days after the announcement of increased security cooperation, Ecuador’s military clashed with a group of armed men in San Lorenzo. No fatalities were recorded on either side, but ...

Palm oil companies arrived in San Lorenzo in the late 1990s and early 2000s, settling in an area of around 30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) that was later expanded to 50,000 (123,552 acres).

SAN LORENZO, Ecuador (AlertNet) - When Angela Quinoes’ nine-year-old daughter was raped by a local gang member a year ago, she decided her family had no option but to leave their home in the ...

SAN LORENZO, ECUADOR — With no sign of a thaw in their frozen diplomatic relations, Ecuador this week called on Colombia to increase its military presence along their shared border to check the ...

BUENOS AIRES, May 11 (Reuters) - Coach Omar Asad is quitting Emelec of Ecuador to take charge of San Lorenzo, the Argentine side's president Carlos Abdo said on Wednesday.