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.

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 ...

The South American nation has reeled under a substantial increase in violent crime over the last several years.

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.

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." ...

In Ecuador's Guayas province, a bar attack resulted in 17 deaths and 11 injuries. The attack is linked to criminal groups ...

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.

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 ...

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) ...