Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.

In one incident, gunmen on motorcycles fired into a crowd gathered outside a grocery store, killing a child and six adult, ...

Incumbent President Daniel Noboa will face Luisa Gonzalez in Ecuador’s April runoff election. Their agendas are polar opposites.

Neither conservative incumbent Daniel Noboa nor lawyer Luisa González won an outright majority in Ecuador’s first-round ...

Opposing them too openly can prove fatal: In 2023, the right-wing politician Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated by Ecuador’s largest domestic organized crime ring, Los Lobos, after calling for a ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador’s April runoff election for president will test the lasting influence of former leftist ...

Ecuador’s presidential election will be decided in a runoff on April 13, after conservative incumbent President Daniel Noboa and leftist lawyer Luisa González beat out 14 other candidates, both of ...

Incumbent president Daniel Noboa and leftist Luisa Gonzalez both hail from the country's populous Pacific coastal belt, are ...

The conservative president and the left-wing candidate were almost tied and a runoff is scheduled for April 13. The winner will have to contend with a security crisis fueled by local gangs and Mexican ...