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

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

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 ...

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

Over the last week, the streets of Central Falls have looked like an abandoned wasteland because people are literally afraid ...

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 ...

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.

Riders between 4 and 13 years old participated on Saturday in a llama race to celebrate World Wetlands Day on a moor in the Ecuadorian Andes. (AP Video by Cesar Olmos) ...