Drug gangs have overwhelmed Ecuador over the past five years, turning it from a peaceful oasis into mainland Latin America’s ...

Ecuadorian gangs are creeping into Peru, drawn by drug trafficking and illegal mining profits, and pushed by a security ...

Ecuador is facing a severe youth unemployment crisis, with eight out of ten young Ecuadorians struggling to find formal work, according to a joint study by non-profit group Children International ...

April’s runoff election could decide whether Ecuador continues a descent into instability and violence, or charts a new ...

The government of Ecuador has taken another step in its effort to gain help from foreign military forces to combat drug ...

The city of Guayaquil, located in the Guayas province of southwestern Ecuador, has been under a state of emergency since January. Authorities are striving to quell escalating violence in this ...

Hitmen gunned down an Ecuadoran air force colonel Friday in a city hard hit by drug crime that has turned ... drug gangs which has seen homicide rates in Ecuador soar. The van ended up stalled ...

Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeño, who led an air force special operations unit, was the passenger in a van when more than ...

Both cities have been caught up in fighting between rival drug gangs that has seen homicide rates in Ecuador soar ... with "a war cry" against organized crime. "It is in our hands to turn ...

Both cities have been caught up in fighting between rival drug gangs that has seen homicide rates in Ecuador soar. The truck ended up ... should be answered with "a war cry" against organized crime.