It has been a year since Shirley Tobar’s husband, a security guard at a mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador, was killed amid an ...

Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police ...

Just 18 months after the last general elections, Ecuadorians are once again heading to the polls for a high-stakes vote in ...

President Daniel Noboa is favored to win Sunday’s presidential election as many voters embrace his heavy-handed tactics to ...

Voters in Ecuador will head to the polls for general elections this weekend. The next president will face the enormous task of dismantling well-funded and powerful organized crime groups in the ...

This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published in the past week by The Associated Press from ...

People on the streets of Ecuador can rattle off the places they have encountered criminals. And they can just as easily list ...

President Daniel Noboa hopes to secure a full four-year term but faces concerns over high crime and economic issues.

Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez says her plans to spend on social welfare and impose harsher penalties for criminals will ...

Business leaders, citizens and even the opposition close ranks with Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to ward off the threats of tariffs from the US president ...

There are approximately 300 service members supporting the holding operations at Guantanamo Bay.

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to ...