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 ...

This summit is unlike any of its predecessors in at least one significant way: The Indigenous presence is palpable and strong ...

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.

QUITO, Ecuador -- Four inmates died and more than 30 others were injured Sunday during a riot at a prison in Ecuador, ...

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

In less than 24 hours, 31 inmates were killed during a nationwide prison reorganization effort in Ecuador that, instead of ...

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

In a statement released on Sunday, Ecuador’s SNAI prison authority said 27 of those found dead at the Machala prison in El ...

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 ...