The Latest Breaking News from Ecuador

Luisa González, handpicked by Rafael Correa as successor, loses to 35-year-old who promises tough line on violent crime and cocaine trafficking

Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election Sunday held amid unprecedented violence that even claimed the life of a candidate.

The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential runoff election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.

Ecuadorian authorities say a seventh man accused in the assassination of a presidential candidate in August has been killed inside a prison

Alleged assassins found dead in notorious Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil

Ecuador’s president pledges to get to bottom of killings in prison of six Colombian suspects in high-profile murder.

New York’s Eric Adams will travel to Mexico, Ecuador and Colombia in a four-day trip this week. Chicago is sending a delegation to Mexico to warn migrants of the city’s winters.

US Secretary of State Blinken announced the reward as part of an ongoing probe into Fernando Villavicencio’s death.

One month ago, on Aug. 20, Ecuador voted to end all oil extraction in Yasuní National Park, marking a historic decision in the global effort to halt fossil fuel extraction in ecologically important regions. As climate emergencies rise globally, Ecuador has set a global precedent by protecting one of the…