Ecuadoreans to vote in referendum on unprecedented security measures
Sweeping security measures designed to empower police and armed forces against organised crime Ecuadoreans will vote on Sunday in a referendum on a raft of...
Category : Ecuador
Ecuador rations power as Andean drought tightens grip
El Niño weather phenomenon depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants Ecuador has begun to ration electricity in the country’s main cities as a...
Mexico calls on UN to expel Ecuador over embassy raid as tensions soar
Ecuadorian police forced their way inside embassy in Quito to arrest former vice-president who was seeking asylum in Mexico Mexico is demanding that the United...
Ecuador’s arrested former vice-president taken to hospital
Jorge Glas brought to naval hospital from maximum security prison three days after his controversial capture in Mexican embassy Ecuador’s former vice-president Jorge Glas has...
Latin American governments condemn Ecuador after police raid Mexican embassy
Brazil and others sharply criticised arrest of Ecuador’s former vice president who was seeking refuge in the embassy facing corruption charges Governments across Latin America...
Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy
Ecuadorian police forcibly enter the embassy in Quito to detain former vice-president Jorge Glas Mexico has suspended diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police forcibly broke...
Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror – podcast
Just a few years ago it was one of the most peaceful countries in Latin America. But last week drug gangs stormed a live TV...
Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV station shot and killed
Police arrest two after César Suárez killed in brazen daylight attack in Guayaquil amid dramatic recent surge in violence How Ecuador was plunged into chaos...
‘This used to be a calm place’: killing continues in Ecuador’s week of chaos
As cartels and crime syndicates flock to Ecuador for cocaine trade profits, its murder rate has soared, with a TV station assault the crescendo of...
Scores of hostages released from gang-controlled prisons, Ecuador government claims
Presidency makes announcement nearly a week after wave of violence hit South American country Scores of hostages have been released from Ecuador’s gang-controlled prisons, the...
