Ecuador’s ports are now a major exit point for South American cocaine headed to North America and Europe, the UN says. This ...

Surge in support sees left-wing challenger Luisa Gonzalez neck and neck with incumbent President Daniel Noboa.

It has been a year since Shirley Tobar’s husband, a security guard at a mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador, was killed amid an ...

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa admits that cartels and gangs move US$30 billion worth of drugs, arms and other illicit ...

Noboa, first elected in 2023 to finish out his predecessor’s term, says his deployment of the military on the streets and ...

Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, ...

Concerns about the sputtering economy and cartel territorial battles have dominated the campaigns, transforming Ecuador from ...

Ecuador, the only dollarized country in South America, holds elections this Sunday in a complex economic situation, marked by ...

To win outright Sunday, a candidate needs 50% of the vote or at least 40% with a 10-point lead over the closest opponent. If ...

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

In the throes of a bloody drug war, a shrinking economy and an acute energy crisis, Ecuadorans are remarkably optimistic ...

Socialist challenger Luisa González did better than forecast in Ecuador’s presidential election, likely forcing President ...