Illegal gold "fever" has struck an Ecuadorian town on the border with Colombia with a "new reality" due to the invasion of illegal mining.

Ecuador has the highest homicide rate in Latin America, with 38.8 per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the most recent ...

Ecuador and Colombia share a border of some 700 kilometers where violence has soared due to the presence of drug gangs, illegal armed groups, and ordinary crime, according to local authorities.

Conservationist groups from Chile and Argentina have undertaken a project to transfer 15 Patagonian rheas (also known as ...

The spike in violence that Ecuador began experiencing four years ago is tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru and remains voters’ main concern. Under Noboa ...

President Daniel Noboa says Ecuador needs international help combatting drug cartels. But experts argue that militarizing the ...

Peru and Colombia. In recent years, Ecuador has plunged into violence amid the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use its ports, like Guayaquil, to ship cocaine to the United States and ...

Edwin Cardona scored the only goal of the game as Colombia held on under second half pressure to begin their Group B campaign with a 1-0 win over Ecuador. Colombia's goal was a thing of beauty ...

The move is the latest measure introduced by Ecuador’s government to further liberalize its air transport sector, following ...