In 2020, the former president was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for aggravated bribery, a charge he has ...

One prison has been under construction in the coastal province of Santa Elena since June 2024, for which 30 hectares (74 acres) of tropical dry forest, one of Ecuador’s most threatened ...

Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police ...

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are ...

A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit against the CIA by journalists and lawyers who said the intelligence agency illegally spied ...

Pinto noted that the president has made many of his more notable decisions by decree, including deploying the army to Ecuador’s streets to combat gangs and building a new prison for 800 of the ...

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

An Ecuadorean anti-corruption court sentenced eight people to prison and sanctioned three companies for their role in a money laundering scheme linked to the Albanian mafia, the prosecutor's office in ...

Those convicted were part of a network that sent drugs from Ecuador to Europe using registered ... All eight individuals received prison terms of more than 17 years, while four of those found ...

Ecuadorean Lieutenant Colonel Porfirio Cedeño was murdered by hitmen near a Guayaquil prison. The commanding officer of the Armed Forces' anti-drug trafficking Special Operations Group took at least ...

Ecuador Court Doles Out Prison Terms in $43 Million Albanian Mafia Scheme QUITO (Reuters) -An Ecuadorean anti-corruption court sentenced eight people to prison and sanctioned three companies for ...