(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s fiscally constrained government is getting outgunned and outmatched by ruthless cash-rich gangs vying for drug-trafficking territory. President Daniel Noboa is hoping a visit ...

QUITO (Reuters) -The United States announced nearly $20 million in new security commitments for Ecuador during a visit by Secretary of State Marco Rubio to the Andean country on Thursday, as ...

How Rasquiña built Ecuador’s criminal federation and how its collapse fueled the gang wars driving violence across the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of Ecuador's armed forces frisks a man at a checkpoint during a joint operation to search for drugs and weapons, in ...

Narcotrafficking gangs operating out of Manabí, a coastal province of Ecuador, are also involved in trafficking shark fins alongside their drug operations, according to a recent investigation by ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ever since Ecuador's most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, authorities have been searching the world, offering a $1 million reward for information ...

Two pickups drive close to a massacre site in Guayaquil, Ecuador on March 6, 2025. At least 12 people were killed in a clash between drug trafficking gangs in the port of Guayaquil (southwest), a city ...

Ecuador’s militarized organized crime crackdown on gangs has failed to translate into a sustained reduction in violence. Three years in, President Daniel Noboa’s government is now making tentative ...

Eight inmates were killed and 10 injured in prison riots in Ecuador, as authorities identified those responsible and ...

FILE - This wanted poster posted on X by Ecuador's Ministry of Interior, Jan. 9, 2024, shows Adolfo Mac as, alias Fito, the leader of Los Choneros gang. (Ecuador's Ministry of Interior via AP, File) ...

Prosecutor Cesar Suarez had been investigating the armed assault by gangsters on a TV station in Ecuador – Copyright AFP CHRISTIAN VINUEZA The prosecutor ...

QUITO, Ecuador (CNN) — He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s ...