QUITO (Reuters) -Gunmen killed at least 17 people and injured 11 more in an attack on a bar in Ecuador's coastal Guayas province, the country's attorney general's office said on Monday, saying it was ...

The South American nation has reeled under a substantial increase in violent crime over the last several years.

José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar, the alleged leader of Los Choneros, will face drug and weapons charges in New York ...

José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is "Fito," escaped from a prison in Ecuador last year and was recaptured June.

José Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared gang Los Choneros, is the first local drug kingpin to be handed over. His trial is ...

The increasing volumes of cocaine reaching the U.K. meet a soaring demand that has reportedly resulted in the country having the second-highest cocaine usage rate in the world. The post Ecuador's ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador — Two uniformed agents cower behind a wall, gun at the ready, fearfully eying a car parked outside their police station after nightfall in the violence-stricken Ecuadoran port ...

Nearest airport to Simon Bolivar Airport and Guayaquil is Salinas Airport - (122.97 Km / 76.41 Miles) Following are the nearest airports to Guayaquil and Simon Bolivar Airport. Distance between the ...

Violence is rising sharply in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, as criminal groups brawl to control transport of drugs despite increased seizures, security forces and residents say, highlighting ...

Ecuador's president says country is at war with drug gangs Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador – Patricia Marin Gines said the stench was unbearable. “I cannot stand looking at him,” she said in April, referring to her 86-year-old father, whose body was laying on ...

Ecuador’s emergency phone service was so inundated with calls that it collapsed, not just in Guayaquil but nationwide. In the midst of this crisis, hundreds of bodies were lost, misplaced, or ...