Category : Ecuador

Killing of Fernando Villavicencio ahead of elections comes as country struggles with surge in drug-related violence Millions of Ecuadorians will have seen the phone camera...

Shock and horror after Fernando Villavicencio, who campaigned on tough-on-crime platform, killed in burst of gunfire in Quito Ecuador’s terrifying descent into violence and criminality...

Anti-corruption figure killed days before election amid sharp rise in violent and organised crime Ecuadorian presidential candidate shot dead at rally – in pictures The...

President Lasso imposes 60-day order and authorizes armed forces to retake control of country’s violence-plagued prisons Ecuador’s president, Guillermo Lasso, has declared a 60-day state...

Bella Montoya, 76, who knocked on her coffin during her wake, has died seven days later from a stroke A 76-year-old woman who had been...

Gangs in Guayaquil use increasingly violent tactics in battle for dominance of cocaine trafficking routes to Europe and the US Ecuador’s embattled president, Guillermo Lasso,...