Under the fist of her dictatorial Government, Ecuador seethed ... On a balcony overlooking Independence Square, Velasco Ibarra proclaimed: “I will deliver the country to a freely elected ...

Government officials in Ecuador have blamed a deadly explosion in the port city of Guayaquil on organised crime. At least five people were killed and 26 more injured in the blast on Sunday.

Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil, left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday. Gun battles broke out ...

Image Soldiers patrolling Independence Square and the grounds around the ... and Thalíe Ponce from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Annie Correal reports from the U.S. and Latin America for The Times.

In recent years, Ecuador has plunged into violence amid the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use its ports, like Guayaquil, to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. Homicides ...

QUITO, March 7 (Reuters) - Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday.

It was the dead of night when homemade explosives detonated Sunday in a populous neighborhood in Guayaquil, one of Ecuador’s largest cities and the country’s commercial hub. The explosion left ...

Cameras at TC Televisión’s station in Guayaquil, Ecuador, caught gunmen taking over the studio during a live broadcast before being arrested by the police. During a live news broadcast by TC ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, has suffered grievously in the country’s ongoing drug-fueled violence epidemic. In 2024, the city recorded nearly 2,000 homicides, government statistics show.

The remains were collected at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where violence first ... members of competing criminal organizations square off. Security forces have often struggled ...