who has led a war on drug gangs blamed for a surge in violent crime in the once-peaceful South American country. Earlier this year, a leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates ...

Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil, left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday. Gun battles broke out ...

Ecuador is home to an estimated 20 criminal gangs involved in drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion, wreaking havoc in a country of 18 million squeezed between the world's biggest cocaine ...

From the outside, we can still see a pool of dried blood left uncleaned ... The mix of gangs, drugs and public safety are driving rising migration from Ecuador and all of that offers opportunities ...