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 ...

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

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