The Latest Breaking News from Ecuador

Ecuador's new president grappled Tuesday with a security nightmare as gangsters held four police officers hostage after he declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison.

Adolfo Macias (alias 'Fito') is leader of one of Ecuador's most notorious gangs

Horrified by the effects of toxic waste in the Amazon, the Harvard-educated lawyer has spent decades fighting the companies he holds responsible. But amid accusation and counter-accusation, he tells Kevin E G Perry about the personal price he has had to pay

A convicted leader of one of the most powerful drug gangs in Ecuador has vanished from the prison where he was serving his sentence

The police operation ran for at least one year to capture Colombian brothers Hader and Dairon Cuero, leaders of Los Curva.

Macias was sentenced to 34 years of prison in 2011 for several crimes including drug trafficking and murder.

Delightful colonial cities, active volcanoes and sections of the Amazon await you in the land of the Equator

Migrants are arriving in the U.S. under the Biden administration’s new “safe mobility offices,” set up in Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador

The 36-year-old president, who took over the office in November last year, said in a televised message that the court now had 20 days to respond to his letter.