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

The young woman is believed to have been part of the Manteño people, who lived along the Ecuadorian coast and survived by ...

Ecuador’s conservative president says that he is raising tariffs on Mexican imports in a move that echoes the trade barriers ...

Stephen and Joanna Vargha retired early and moved from North Carolina to Cuenca, Ecuador, in 2020 for the lower cost of ...

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

The view outside from this eco-hotel in northern Ecuador reveals vast hillsides still scarred by fires. In late January 2024, ...

In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

The burial of a young woman, possibly as young as 17, was identified as “burial 10” and dated to between 771 and 953 A.D., ...

Voting in Ecuador is mandatory. Despite the multiple options from which to choose a president, some voters in Guayaquil, the epicenter of Ecuador's violence, prefer to cast blank votes to express ...

A pregnant woman believed to have lived over a thousand years ago in Ecuador's coastal region may have been part of ritual sacrifice or punishment, according to archaeologists who excavated her ...