The heads were suspended between two wooden poles and tied to a length of green rope on a beach in the Pacific resort of ...

Ecuador experienced a significant 30.4% increase in murders in 2025 compared to the previous year. The country's interior ...

Ecuador gang violence escalates as five severed heads discovered on tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, highlighting country's ...

Ecuador's Intelligence Law would expand the authority of the Strategic Intelligence Center, allowing it to collect personal data, conduct wiretaps and carry out raids without a court order. That law ...

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, ...

Ecuador‘s most wanted fugitive, a gang leader and drug-lord known as Fito, was captured after hiding out in a bunker underneath a house. Fito, whose real name is Adolfo Macías Villamar, is the leader ...

Ecuador has protested a Spanish court's release of alleged crime boss William Joffre Alcivar Bautista due to a lack of extradition guarantees. Arrested in Spain on terrorism charges, Alcivar was ...

Ecuador's most notorious drug lord has agreed to be extradited to the United States to face cocaine and weapons smuggling charges, a court in Quito said Friday. Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," was ...

Ecuadorian prosecutors have charged former Interior Minister José Serrano with helping plan the high-profile assassination of a presidential candidate in 2023, marking a crucial moment in the ...

QUITO/MADRID, Jan 7 - Ecuador's government on Wednesday protested a Spanish court's release of an alleged crime boss who ...

You’ve probably heard of Fito, Ecuador’s most famous gang boss, who was recently extradited to the United States. But authorities just captured an Ecuadorian leader they claim is even more powerful, ...

The president of violence-wracked Ecuador on Wednesday proposed the creation of a special body to draw up a new constitution with tougher laws against drug trafficking and organized crime. The ...