Ecuador's president has ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralised" after days of violence culminated in an attack on a television studio. Masked gunmen broke into public television channel TC's ...

Their treatment is hardcore but it's designed to be. They're sending a message to the gangs that things are changing here. Ecuador's president declared a state of emergency in the South American ...

Ecuador is facing a fresh wave of violence that has rocked the South American country, with President Daniel Noboa launching a military crackdown on drug gangs that experts say could take years.

The answer is gangs - and geography. Ecuador is sandwiched between Colombia and Peru, the two largest producers of cocaine in the world. Cocaine production recently reached a record high ...

27, 2023, he fled his hometown of San Mateo for the U.S. In this fishing village on the coast of Ecuador, the Angulo family personifies some of the forces driving migration to the U.S. Gangs have ...

Watch: Armed men interrupt live Ecuador broadcast and threaten staff ... have been freed. But the gangs also appear to have stepped up their attacks. In one of the most shocking incidents, a ...

The answer is gangs - and geography. Ecuador is sandwiched between Colombia and Peru, the two largest producers of cocaine in the world. Cocaine production recently reached a record high ...

Ecuador's new president, Daniel Noboa, declared a 60-day state of emergency on Monday, a day after one of the country's most powerful gang leaders, Adolfo "Fita" Macías, vanished from his prison ...

Since Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa declared an “internal armed conflict” against organized crime and gangs in early ...

13, 2021 1:36 p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 1:36 p.m. A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison early Saturday left at least 68 inmates dead in the latest ...