Whoever wins the presidential election will be tasked with restoring security to the country.

Ecuador’s center-right President Daniel Noboa fell short of securing an outright majority in the country’s general election, ...

Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an ...

President Daniel Noboa, who is known for his aggressive law-and-order policies, failed to win a majority of votes in his ...

The United States and Canada have agreed to strengthen cross-border law enforcement collaboration to counter Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA), the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement on ...

An April presidential run-off in Ecuador will pit incumbent Daniel Noboa against leftist Luisa Gonzalez, in an unexpectedly ...

Noboa's blend of populist bravado, aggressive security policies and alignment with Trumpian politics has positioned him, at ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by ...

“I declared war on terrorists ... members of the notorious Los Lobos gang. Alongside crime, drought from the El Niño weather phenomenon has crippled Ecuador’s hydroelectric plants and ...

His father, Marcos Elías León Maruri, was kidnapped there by the Los Tiguerones gang. A person is killed every two hours in Ecuador and seven ... We're in a war. Mafias use machine guns, grenades.