Daniel Noboa, heir to banana fortune, wins Ecuador’s presidential runoff election
An inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election
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An inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election
Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task
Authorities in Ecuador say masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast, prompting the president to issued a decree declaring that the violence-plagued country had entered an “internal armed conflict.”
Schools and stores are shuttered, many people stayed home and soldiers are roaming the streets of Ecuador’s biggest cities after armed gang members invaded a television station live afternoon newscast
Ecuador has started to ration electricity in its main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants
Ecuador has announced the suspension of an agreement with China that had waived visas for Chinese citizens traveling to the South American country
A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape
A convicted leader of one of the most powerful drug gangs in Ecuador has vanished from the prison where he was serving his sentence