Deep in Ecuador's Podocarpus National Park, 2,200 illegal miners work in conditions that would shock Charles Dickens. They're ...

President Daniel Noboa's administration won legislative approval for two key laws aimed at strengthening its response to ...

Ecuador has launched a nationwide crackdown on criminal gangs extorting shrimp producers and attacking transport routes in key coastal and river zones ...

So far efforts to curb the gangs have been dispiriting. This week in Colombia, where the government has pursued fruitless ...

Ecuador's National Assembly on Saturday approved a reform backed by President Daniel Noboa to arm the government with new ...

There are an estimated 40,000 gang members in Ecuador, the president has said, and about 20 gangs with links to international cartels. Noboa last year declared Ecuador to be in an internal armed ...

Ecuador's parliament on Tuesday gave the green light for the establishment of foreign military bases in the country as it seeks international assistance in its battle against violent drug gangs.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, who this weekend won re-election, has vowed to crack down on the criminal gangs tearing the nation apart. But despite a range of drastic steps, including ...

Ecuador has re-elected Daniel Noboa as president - a conservative millionaire with a controversial no-holds-barred approach to tackling gang crime. Mr Noboa's opponent, leftist lawyer Luisa ...

WSJ’s Ryan Dubé explains how gangs turned Ecuador into one of the world’s most violence-plagued nations. Photo: Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Ecuadoreans re-elected President Daniel Noboa ...

Ecuador is laying the groundwork for US forces to arrive, according to plans obtained by CNN – as its president calls on US President Donald Trump to help battle powerful gangs in a country once ...