Ecuador has been plagued by gang violence in recent years Lesley Cosme Torres is a writer at PEOPLE covering crime. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in the ...

Security personnel arrive at the Litoral Penitentiary after a riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 14, 2023 [Vicente Gaibor del Pino/Reuters At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A shooting by a criminal gang at a pool hall in northern Ecuador killed at least seven people and four others wounded, police said on Saturday. It was the second such attack in ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — People on the streets of Ecuador can rattle off the places they have encountered criminals: On the bus, at the park, on the sidewalk, in a cab, by the mall, next to a restaurant.

At least nine people were shot dead Saturday while playing pool in a tourist city in southwestern Ecuador, the country's prosecutor's office said. A group of armed men opened fire on several people at ...

JATUN RUMI, Ecuador (AP) — High in the mountains of the Ecuadorian Andes, a group of young Otavalo Indigenous people is using anime to inspire pride in their ancient culture and language, especially ...