Ecuador

Long seen as stable in a region wracked with drug violence, Ecuador is now seeing brazen attacks that have shocked many.

The prison system has long been the main theater of violence in Ecuador. Security forces have struggled to confront the gangs inside overcrowded prisons, where ...

President declares state of 'internal armed conflict' as gang leader escapes from jail and gunmen invade TV studio.

More than 130 prison staff are being held hostage by inmates in five jails. A 60-day state of emergency began on Monday after a notorious gangster vanished from ...

Ecuador President Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday that his country was "at war" with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison guards and other staff ...

The news of hooded gunmen barging into a live television show and taking hostages in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and chief port, reverberated around ...

'We cannot give in to those terrorist groups,' says Daniel Noboa, challenging the gangs to directly engage the army as the country reels from violence.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa says his country is “at war” after drug gangs took more than 130 prison guards and other staff hostage and briefly ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when the ...

President Daniel Noboa declared an internal armed conflict on Tuesday and ordered the mobilization of military and police.

Gruesome social media content related to the ongoing violence is widespread on Elon Musk's social network.

The men with faces covered entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil and shouted that they had “bombs.” Noises similar to ...

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by armed people, with gunshots and ...

A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying guns. Staff were forced to ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast on ...

Ecuador's attorney general's office says 13 people arrested after breaking into a TV studio during a live broadcast will be charged with terrorism.

President Noboa declares a state of emergency after the disappearance of a powerful gang leader from prison.

QUITO, Ecuador -- Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, ...

New president Daniel Noboa has pledged to hit back at the rising crime that stymied his predecessor, but he faces an uphill battle amid gang control of prisons, ...

The men armed with pistols and what looked like sticks of dynamite entered the set of the TC Television network in the port city of Guayaquil and shouted ...

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an “internal armed conflict” in the country, ordering security forces to “neutralize” several criminal groups ...

Masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast Tuesday, and the president issued a ...

President Daniel Noboa decreed a national state of emergency for 60 days Monday, allowing the authorities to suspend rights and mobilize the military in ...

Masked assailants, waving weapons, went on a live broadcast, threatening a country that has been hit hard by drug-related violence.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Guayaquil, Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when the masked gunmen burst in ...

Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks in the wake of a notorious gang leader's apparent weekend escape from prison.