Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeno, who led an air force special operations unit, was the passenger in a van when more than 20 shots were fired.

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by ...

In a darkened military command center near the Peruvian border, eight Ecuadoran marines armed with rusting M4 rifles prepare ...

Five people were later imprisoned for his murder, with prosecutors accusing two of them of being members of the notorious Los ...

with prosecutors accusing two of them of being members of the notorious Los Lobos gang. Alongside crime, drought from the El Niño weather phenomenon has crippled Ecuador’s hydroelectric plants ...

"And you have now local gangs like Los Lobos, the Choneros, who are fighting for territory, to be able to move product through Ecuador to their new buyers in Europe and in Asia." The result has ...

In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic ...

Ecuador will choose its next president in a runoff election after conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer ...

The two main candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in ...

By Genevieve Glatsky Reporting from Quito, Ecuador Ecuador’s young president, Daniel Noboa, who is known for aggressive law-and-order policies and a mastery of social media, failed to win a ...