Gangs, drugs and public safety threats are ravaging Ecuador’s largest city and may push the president to seek help from the United States.

Gang infighting has left nearly two dozen people dead in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. 14 people were arrested in the ...

Ecuador battled a spreading oil slick Tuesday that has reached several rivers after a spill left thousands without drinking ...

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has granted preemptive pardons for police and military personnel responding to an armed ...

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least ...

An explosion outside the Litoral Penitentiary, Ecuador's most dangerous prison, left one guard dead and two injured on ...

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least ...

Potatoes are a major crop here, with Ecuador home to between 350 and 450 varieties. It’s no surprise then that Milton and ...

An oil spill in northwestern Ecuador has turned a river black, prompting authorities to declare an environmental emergency ...

Deep in the tropical rainforests of northern Ecuador, researchers equipped with slingshots launched traps scented with ...

Ecuador's president announced on Friday an amnesty for security forces fighting drug cartels in the port city of Guayaquil, ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, has suffered grievously in the country’s ongoing drug-fueled violence epidemic. In 2024, the city recorded nearly 2,000 homicides, government statistics show.