Facing surging gang violence & drug-linked crime, Ecuador’s government launched a military crackdown that critics allege has ‘disappeared’ innocents, including 11-year-old Steven Gerald Medina Lajones ...

Ecuador's Interior Minister John Reimberg said inmates across the country have been staging violent uprisings to prevent ...

Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen talks about making the documentary ‘Drug War in Ecuador,’ an on-the-ground look at the country’s ongoing crisis.

This Sunday, Ecuadorans will vote on whether to allow foreign military bases to return to the country. About 61 percent of ...

Ecuador has moved 300 high-risk inmates to a new maximum-security prison on the country's coast, including former Vice ...

Ecuador was the first country to enshrine the rights of nature in its c. On Nov. 16, voters decide if it should be re-written ...

At least 27 inmates were found dead from asphyxiation at a prison in Ecuador where a riot broke out that left four others ...

At least 31 inmates have been found dead in a prison in southern Ecuador, including 27 who had been hanged, officials say.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A shooting by a criminal gang at a pool hall in northern Ecuador killed at least seven people and four others wounded, police said on Saturday. It was the second such attack in ...

QUITO, Ecuador — A violent clash Sunday in Ecuador between law enforcement authorities and Indigenous people protesting the end of a fuel subsidy left one civilian dead and 12 soldiers injured. The ...