That “mano dura” approach has shown limited results. The homicide rate in 2024 dropped nearly 20 percent — but figures remain ...

The leftist party of former leader Rafael Correa, a Venezuelan ally, could return to power. Here’s what’s at stake ...

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are ...

Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an ...

President Daniel Noboa is favored to win Sunday’s presidential election as many voters embrace his heavy-handed tactics to ...

Under President Daniel Noboa, the prisons have been declared “security zones” and are under the direct control of the police ...

President Daniel Noboa, who is known for his aggressive law-and-order policies, failed to win a majority of votes in his ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by ...

Ecuador’s youngest ever president has declared numerous states of emergency, deployed military units to tackle gang activity, and began construction on a new maximum-security prison after an ...

Polls opened Sunday in a presidential election in Ecuador that is shaped up to be a repeat of the 2023 race, when voters ...

In 2020, the former president was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for aggravated bribery ... Why has violence spiked in the country? Ecuador has become a cocaine trafficking ...

Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa is likely to fall short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, according to preliminary results Sunday, setting the stage for ...