Sentencing caps yearlong investigation into abuse, disappearance of four children in Guayaquil amid crime crackdown.

Guayaquil has become a hotspot for gang violence linked to drug trafficking and several soccer players in Ecuador have been targeted in recent months.

Ecuador's Intelligence Law would expand the authority of the Strategic Intelligence Center, allowing it to collect personal data, conduct wiretaps and carry out raids without a court order. That law ...

A court in Ecuador has sentenced eleven soldiers to 34 years in prison for the abduction and torture of four children last year.

In late May, British Security Minister Dan Jarvis visited Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city and economic capital, whose port is used to export much of the country’s booming cocaine trade. There, ...

Ecuador defender Mario Pineida has died at the age of 33 after being shot in Guayaquil. Local media reported that Pineida was ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) -Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was returned to prison hours after he was temporarily evacuated for security reasons amid chaotic scenes inside the jail, the ...

Eleven Ecuadoran soldiers were sentenced to nearly 35 years in prison over the abduction and deaths of four children last ...

Mario Pineida, a 33-year-old Barcelona de Guayaquil defender and former national team player, was shot dead, police said ...

Four days after 53-year-old Father Enrique Fabián Arcos went missing in Ecuador, the authorities found his body Nov. 3 in a dump about 18 miles north of Ambato, where he lived. The murder was preceded ...

Indigenous and rural communities in Ecuador’s Amazon have condemned an international arbitration ruling that ordered Ecuador ...

Ecuador's most notorious drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges, a court in Quito said Friday. Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," was ...