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

A US judge says he'll halt parts of Trump's attempt to dismantle USAID - the world's largest aid agency. Also; Ecuador chooses president against backdrop of gang violence, and the quest to map the ...

NBC News’ David Noriega reports on how Ecuador’s presidential election could shape Latin American in the era of Trump.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.