Five inmates were found dead Friday at Ecuador's biggest prison, the SNAI prison agency said, a day after fatal clashes between rival gangs erupted in the same port city of Guayaquil.

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least ...

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso Monday said his country was under attack by drug trafficking gangs, which are allegedly trying to take over the country's prisons, where riots have cost the ...

Gang infighting has left nearly two dozen people dead in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city. 14 people were arrested in the aftermath of the Thursday skirmish.

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 ...

A person is killed every two hours in Ecuador and seven are kidnapped ... money even from within maximum-security prisons. He describes how gang members force drivers to pay "vacunas" (Spanish ...

Twenty two people were killed in gun battles in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil on Thursday, in what police said was a potential dispute between factions of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang fighting ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ecuador’s 37-year-old leader Daniel ... saw him send the military into the streets and into the gang-controlled prison system. González, a former lawmaker, called for a strong ...