Ecuador

Daniel Noboa, who took office in November promising to halt Ecuador's surging crime wave, announced that the country would begin moving foreigners from jails to ...

New president Daniel Noboa has pledged to hit back at the rising crime that stymied his predecessor, but he faces an uphill battle amid gang control of prisons, ...

The prison system has long been the main theater of violence in Ecuador. Security forces have struggled to confront the gangs inside overcrowded prisons, where ...

Gruesome social media content related to the ongoing violence is widespread on Elon Musk's social network.

Daniel Noboa designates nearly two dozen gangs as terrorist groups after wave of violence across country.

The government has said the latest wave of violence is a reaction to the president's plan to build new high-security prisons for gang leaders. | World News.

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday that his country was "at war" with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison guards and other staff ...

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa on Tuesday named 22 gangs as terrorist organizations, making them official military targets.

Hundreds of soldiers patrolled near-deserted streets in Ecuador's capital Wednesday after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other, ...

Schools and stores are shuttered, people are staying home as soldiers roam the streets of Ecuador's biggest cities.

A Ecuadorean journalist who was held hostage by gunmen during the takeover of a Guayaquil TV station and obliged to appear on camera at gunpoint told ...

Some masked gunmen stormed TC Television studio in Ecuador and unleashed 15 minutes of horror but no one was killed in the attack.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday his country is in the grip of “internal armed conflict” amid growing violence across the South American ...

This comes as Ecuadoran President declared a state of emergency for 60 days after a recent prison escape by one of Ecuador's most powerful criminal bosses.

Gunmen storm TV station during live broadcast, more than 20 violent incidents reported as country lurches into crisis.

By James Blears. Listen to James Blears' report. Terrified TV workers from television channel TC were forced to the ground at gunpoint in the city of ...

He ordered military operations to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gangsters declared war following the prison escape Sunday of one of Ecuador's most powerful ...

The country has been plunged into chaos after its most notorious gang leader and drug lord, Adolfo Macías, escaped from prison on Sunday.

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by armed people, with gunshots and ...

Police arrested the 13 men who burst into TC's studio during a live broadcast, while elsewhere at least seven police officers were kidnapped and there were ...

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when the masked gunmen burst in ...

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa has declared a state of “internal armed conflict” and identified more than 20 gangs as terrorist groups, making them military ...