Gangs, drugs and public safety threats are ravaging Ecuador’s largest city and may push the president to seek help from the ...

CNN’s David Culver joins police as they conduct raids in a gang stronghold in Guayaquil, Ecuador. President Daniel Noboa says ...

Clashes between rival criminal groups claimed the lives of 14 people over the weekend in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, the epicenter of a bloody power struggle between narco gangs, police said ...

seeking re-election Sunday as he leads a war on drug gangs blamed for a surge in violent crime in the once-peaceful South American country. Just last week, a leader of one of Ecuador's biggest ...

Jorge' tells the BBC he is living in fear after his father was kidnapped and killed by a gang The surge in violence is partly down to Ecuador's location, and the soaring demand for cocaine in the ...

and even government jobs for gang members. As a result, violence plummeted, with Ecuador’s murder rate falling to 6 per 100,000 residents in 2017, Correa’s final year in office. Despite these ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s 37-year-old leader Daniel Noboa is seeking reelection on Sunday with out-of-control gang violence the top issue for voters. He’s facing socialist challenger Luisa ...

Ecuador's presidential election will go to a second round after a closely contested first-round result failed to produce an outright winner.

seeking re-election Sunday as he leads a war on drug gangs blamed for a surge in violent crime in the once-peaceful South American country. Just last week, a leader of one of Ecuador's biggest ...

Much of the world's cocaine, from coca leaves grown in Colombia and Peru, leaves the continent through Ecuador's ports, and powerful gangs battle to control this lucrative route. Many of these ...