As with climate change, why are we so slow to recognise the existential threat that drug use poses to humanity?

Māori people celebrated on Friday as Mount Taranki in New Zealand officially became a person and, with that, was renamed ...

For many years, Ecuador had one of the lowest homicide rates in Latin America – an indicator of low gang activity. As a result, it hadn’t developed a robust police and military response to gangs.

Just last week, a leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates, Los Lobos, was arrested at his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo. The U.S. last year declared Los Lobos to be the ...

The liberal president and his left-wing opponent, lawyer Luisa Gonzalez, are due to face off again at the polls Sunday for the first round of the presidential election in Ecuador, after a first ...

Supporters holding cardboard cutouts of President Daniel Noboa during a campaign event on Wednesday in Quito, Ecuador.Credit...Johanna Alarcón for The New York Times Supported by By Genevieve ...

Ecuador will apply a 27% tariff on Mexican goods to “ensure fair treatment” of Ecuadorian producers, President Daniel Noboa said on Monday. In a post on X, Noboa said he is open to signing a ...

A pregnant woman believed to have lived over a thousand years ago in Ecuador's coastal region may have been part of ritual sacrifice or punishment, according to archaeologists who excavated her ...

Running Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America. Droughts have caused blackouts. Economic growth is anaemic. Even so ...

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa is betting that his pledges to push crime-fighting initiatives begun under his truncated first administration and to tackle power cuts will ...