By Kimberley Brown Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s plans to build two maximum-security prisons in sensitive ecosystems and ...

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 ...

Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez says her plans to spend on social welfare and impose harsher penalties for criminals will ...

Ecuadorian authorities Tuesday confirmed that the number of inmates killed in prison clashes nationwide ... freedom of assembly among inmates. Amid Ecuador's mounting violence, two of the ...

The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there ...

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 ...

QUITO (Reuters) -An Ecuadorean anti-corruption court sentenced eight people to prison and sanctioned three ... part of a network that sent drugs from Ecuador to Europe using registered companies ...