Ecuador’s ports are now a major exit point for South American cocaine headed to North America and Europe, the UN says. This ...

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

It has been a year since Shirley Tobar’s husband, a security guard at a mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador, was killed amid an ...

To win outright Sunday, a candidate needs 50% of the vote or at least 40% with a 10-point lead over the closest opponent. If ...

One legislator is pushing for more severe punishment but others in the country blame not the young killers but a state which ...

In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic ...

Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, ...

Concerns about the sputtering economy and cartel territorial battles have dominated the campaigns, transforming Ecuador from ...

Surge in support sees left-wing challenger Luisa Gonzalez neck and neck with incumbent President Daniel Noboa.

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

Socialist challenger Luisa González did better than forecast in Ecuador’s presidential election, likely forcing President ...

Ecuador's dueling presidential hopefuls made a last-ditch pitch to late-deciding voters Thursday, wrapping a bitter campaign ...