A person is killed every two hours in Ecuador and seven are kidnapped daily, according to government figures. That's why ...

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 ...

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

With the United States as its main international support in the face of the security crisis, Ecuador will vote this Sunday whether or not to reelect President Daniel Noboa, whose mandate in foreign ...

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, a Canadian-owned mining project threatens the way of life of local Indigenous communities.

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa is betting that his pledges to push crime-fighting initiatives begun under his truncated ...

The European Union (EU) intensified from Wednesday its electoral observation mission in Ecuador with the deployment of 40 more observers in different parts of the country in addition to the 38 that ...

The last time Ecuador held elections, in 2023, the country’s national assembly had been dissolved and then-President ...

The data, formatted for easy visualization, presents a detailed look at how individuals from various countries have been ...

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.