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.

On Ecuador's lawless southwest coast, drug gangs operate with impunity and terrified residents ask if their president's "iron ...

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

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

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

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

Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police ...

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa is betting that his pledges to push crime-fighting initiatives begun under his truncated ...

"They stole children from other towns and sacrificed them in front of her (Santa Muerte) when they wanted to land a big hit," ...

"El Chino" was arrested along with two other alleged suspects; authorities seized drugs, firearms and armored vehicles ...