Ecuador

Schools and stores sat shuttered, many people stayed home and soldiers roamed the streets of Ecuador's biggest cities on Wednesday, the day after armed gang ...

Daniel Noboa, who took office in November promising to halt Ecuador's surging crime wave, announced that the country would begin moving foreigners from jails to ...

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa has declared a state of “internal armed conflict” and identified more than 20 gangs as terrorist groups, making them military ...

The prison system has long been the main theater of violence in Ecuador. Security forces have struggled to confront the gangs inside overcrowded prisons, where ...

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday that his country was "at war" with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison guards and other staff ...

Gruesome social media content related to the ongoing violence is widespread on Elon Musk's social network.

Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across country.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when the ...

Schools and stores are shuttered, people are staying home as soldiers roam the streets of Ecuador's biggest cities.

A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted by armed people, with gunshots and yelling heard on a live feed, as President Daniel Noboa ...

A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying guns. Staff were forced to ...

Gangsters unleashed wave of terror following move by President Daniel Noboa in response to gang leader's prison escape.

Masked men broke on to the set of a public television channel in Ecuador, waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast, and the president issued a...

The men armed with pistols and what looked like sticks of dynamite entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil and shouted ...

The men armed with pistols and what looked like sticks of dynamite entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil and shouted ...

Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared Los Choneros gang who is better known by his alias Fito, was first reported missing from his cell in the Regional prison ...

The country has seen a series of attacks after the government imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the apparent escape of a powerful gang leader from ...

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country, ordering security forces to “neutralize” several criminal groups ...

Ecuador's president has declared a state of “internal armed conflict”. How did the country find itself in the grip of armed gangs?

Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks in the wake of a notorious gang leader's apparent weekend escape from prison.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday his country is in the grip of “internal armed conflict” amid growing violence across the South American ...

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by armed people, with gunshots and ...

President declares state of 'internal armed conflict' as gang leader escapes from jail and gunmen invade TV studio.

A live broadcast by Ecuadorian television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by hooded and armed people.