More access to weapons, heightened impunity, and the atomization of gangs are leading to more mass killings in Ecuador's ...

Ecuador faces increasing violence, attributed to drug gangs fighting for control. Police found 10 dead bodies in Guabo, El ...

Ecuador's homicide rate increased from 6.7 per 100,000 in 2019 to 45 per 100,000 in 2023; only Jamaica (49) has a higher rate ...

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 ...

Ecuadorean police reported on Sunday that officers found 10 dead bodies at a property in Guabo, a community in El Oro province in the Andean country's south. Violence has exploded throughout Ecuador ...

Some of the people killed were foreigners, but their nationalities were not immediately known, said local police chief Pablo ...

A massacre inside Ecuador’s largest and most violent prison is a sign that the country’s criminal organizations are atomizing rapidly pace as the government’s security crackdown stalls.

Ten people were killed early Sunday in a mass shooting in a rural area of Ecuador that is under a state of emergency, police said.

SAN MATEO, Ecuador (AP) — Oswaldo Angulo is a born fisherman, like generations before him. The oldest of his brothers, he dropped out of high school in Ecuador to learn the trade with his father.

At least ten people, including Ecuadorians and Colombians, were killed in an armed attack in El Guabo, a town in the coastal province of El Oro in southern Ecuador, local media reported.

The global surge in organised crime started around the turn of the century, according to one official. Read more at ...

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