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

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 ...

Luisa Gonzalez, the bishop of former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa (2007-2017), once again embodies the hope of ...

Most of the Indians taking the infamous donkey route to the US somehow reach any of the Latin American countries. However, it ...

Incumbent President Daniel Noboa and his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez crisscrossed their equator-hugging Andean nation, ...

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: On the bus, at the park, on the ...

Ecuador, the only dollarized country in South America, holds elections this Sunday in a complex economic situation, marked by ...

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.