Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin has been extradited to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a ...

José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar, the alleged leader of Los Choneros, will face drug and weapons charges in New York ...

José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is "Fito," escaped from a prison in Ecuador last year and was recaptured June.

MEXICO CITY — Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, was a pandemic hellscape of makeshift morgues, hundreds dying at home, bodies left in the street.

QUITO (Reuters) -Gunmen killed at least 17 people and injured 11 more in an attack on a bar in Ecuador's coastal Guayas province, the country's attorney general's office said on Monday, saying it was ...

In two weeks, 1,900 bodies were collected from Guayaquil’s hospitals and homes for burial, a fivefold increase in the city’s usual mortality rate, according to Ecuador’s government.

Marines patrol Puerto Libertad Island in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on May 11, 2023. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) He called the new safety measures "a natural reaction amid government inefficiency." ...

Ecuador says deadly Guayaquil blast connected to crime gangs, investigation ongoing By Alexandra Valencia August 15, 202212:46 PM PDTUpdated August 15, 2022 ...