Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador's most violent city ...

The United States has updated its travel warning for Ecuador, adding "increased risk" guidance for American travelers ...

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said. Another three people were wounded in a ...

The Guayaquil port in Ecuador is used to transport cocaine to Europe In an effort to move large quantities of drugs to Europe, traffickers are increasing the flow of cocaine through Ecuador’s port ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – Pope Francis received a hero's welcome in Ecuador's biggest city Monday as he celebrated the first public Mass of his South American tour, telling hundreds of thousands of ...

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has granted preemptive pardons for police and military personnel responding to an armed attack that killed at least 22 in the southern city of Guayaquil yesterday.

Viewed from afar, the urban slums of developing countries often spark moral disdain for a "culture of poverty" and fears of impending social explosions. In these complimentary volumes, two mature ...