Ecuador was hit by a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, a senior government minister said, leaving some 18 million people in the dark for several hours.
The subway system in the capital, Quito, ground to a halt and traffic lights stopped working (...)
Ecuador is temporarily suspending a visa waiver agreement with China, citing evidence of irregular migration flows of Chinese citizens through the small South American country.
A statement from the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that (...)
Police in Ecuador said they have captured the fugitive leader of a powerful criminal gang.
Fabricio Colón Pico, the leader of Los Lobos, had been on the run since escaping from jail on Jan. 8.
Officials said they had traced Colón Pico, who had dyed (...)
The decision by Ecuador to forcibly enter the Mexican Embassy on Saturday and arrest a former vice president of the Andean country on corruption charges represents a breach of international law, the UN Secretary-General has said.
In a statement (...)
Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they had "forcibly entered" the embassy in a "flagrant (...)
Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte García, has been shot dead.
The 27-year-old and her press officer were found dead in a car on Sunday in the town of San Vicente, where she had won the mayoral election last year.
No arrests have been made so far (...)
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.
The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were (...)
Soldiers are on the streets in several cities in Ecuador as the country reels from an unprecedented day of violence.
Masked gunmen stormed a public TV studio during a live broadcast in the city of Guayaquil and bombs were detonated across Ecuador on (...)
A group of armed men have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened staff, footage shows.
A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an "internal armed conflict" in the country, ordering security forces to "neutralize" several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation.
The decree came shortly (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for the South American nation after a notorious gang leader escaped from prison, heightening security fears as authorities struggle to control the bloodshed of a bloody (...)
An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.
An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation's claim over (...)
Businessman Daniel Noboa is to become the youngest president in Ecuador's history, at 35 years old.
Noboa won Sunday's election with 52.3% of the vote, ahead of Luisa González's 47.7%. She conceded defeat and congratulated her rival.
The (...)
Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave which has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after (...)
More than 50 prison guards and seven police officers have been taken hostage in several jails in Ecuador, according to officials.
Two car bombs also went off in the capital Quito, both targeting the country's prisons authority (SNAI).
Nobody was (...)
Left-winger Luisa Gonzalez is leading in Ecuador's presidential election overshadowed by the assassination of one of the candidates.
With nearly 80% of the votes counted, electoral officials say she has 33%, while her closest rival Daniel Noboa, a (...)
A candidate in Sunday's presidential election in violence-hit Ecuador has called for an investigation after shooting erupted near a restaurant where he was having breakfast.
Otto Sonnenholzner, a conservative politician, was with his family and (...)
Andrea González now wears a bulletproof vest 24 hours a day. A week ago, her Construye party's presidential candidate in the Ecuadorean election this Sunday, Fernando Villavicencio, was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in the (...)
A local party leader has been killed in Ecuador, the second politician to be assassinated in the space of a week.
Pedro Briones was shot dead by gunmen on a motorcycle at his home in northern Esmeraldas province.
His killing comes just five days (...)
Thousands of Ecuadorian soldiers and police have been involved in a dawn operation to move a notorious gang leader to a maximum-security jail.
Jose Adolfo Macias, known as "Fito" is accused of sending death threats to Ecuador's murdered presidential (...)
Several Colombians have been arrested in connection with the murder of Fernando Villavicencio, as the body of the assassinated Ecuadorian presidential candidate was buried in a private ceremony in the country's capital on Friday night.
Pope Francis (...)
A candidate in Ecuador's forthcoming presidential election who campaigned against corruption and gangs has been shot dead at a campaign rally.
Fernando Villavicencio, a member of the country's national assembly, was attacked as he left the event in (...)
Rescuers in Ecuador are working through the night to free dozens of people trapped in gondolas on one of the world's highest cable car systems.
Firefighters were alerted around 4 p.m. local time Thursday of a technical failure that affected the (...)
An Ecuadorean woman has died days after mourners at her funeral were shocked to find her alive in her coffin.
Bella Montoya, 76, was first declared dead by a doctor at a hospital in the city of Babahoyo last week.
But when mourners attending her (...)
Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.
A hospital doctor in the city of Babahoyo declared Bella Montoya, 76, dead following a suspected stroke.
She was placed in a coffin and taken to a (...)
