In one incident, gunmen on motorcycles fired into a crowd gathered outside a grocery store, killing a child and six adults, ...

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

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

Some 14mn Ecuadorans began voting under tight security yesterday, choosing who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused illegal ...

Ecuadorean Lieutenant Colonel Porfirio Cedeño was murdered by hitmen near a Guayaquil prison. The commanding officer of the Armed Forces' anti-drug trafficking Special Operations Group took at least ...

That trade has brought record rates of murder, kidnapping and extortion to Ecuador. Noboa has responded by declaring a state of emergency, deploying the army to the streets and gathering ...

During his 15 months in office Noboa has declared a state of emergency, deployed the army to the streets ... four boys whose ...

Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime ...