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Ecuador’s most notorious drug kingpin has been extradited to the United States, a month after he was recaptured following a ...
MEXICO CITY — Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, was a pandemic hellscape of makeshift morgues, hundreds dying at home, bodies left in the street.
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.
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 ...
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." ...
In Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city, a surge in deaths has overwhelmed health care and burial services. Scenes of bodies on sidewalks and desperate families serve as a warning for the region.
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.
Corp Ice Cream’s sales in Ecuador have gone down by 40% since the power outages began in mid September and that is taking a toll on its suppliers. “We used to buy 2,500 liters of milk and 160 ...
The outbreak in Ecuador has sickened at least 3,100 people, according to Johns Hopkins' latest data map. The epicenter in the country is in Guayaquil, where residents have criticized the ...
Ecuador says deadly Guayaquil blast connected to crime gangs, investigation ongoing By Alexandra Valencia August 15, 202212:46 PM PDTUpdated August 15, 2022 ...
Rosangelys Valdiviezo, a Venezuelan migrant living in Guayaquil, Ecuador, filmed video April 2-3 showing the covered-up corpse of one of her neighbors. (Video: Rosangelys Valdiviezo) ...