At least 17 people were killed in a prison riot in Ecuador's northern city of Esmeraldas, near the border with Colombia, the country's prison agency said on Thursday. Authorities are carrying out the ...

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One suspect in Villavicencio's assassination is dead and six other suspects, said to be Colombian nationals, have been arrested, according to a press conference from Interior Minister Jose Serrano.

Massive waves of up to 13 feet (four meters) are pummeling the coasts of Ecuador and Peru, leaving scores of ports closed and at least one person dead on Saturday, authorities said. Jetties and public ...

The director of Ecuador's biggest prison was killed in an armed attack on Thursday, the second such killing in under two weeks in the Latin American country, the SNAI prison agency said. Maria Daniela ...

An Ecuadoran judge was fatally shot during a state of emergency that had been declared to combat organized crime, Ecuador's judicial oversight body said. It called the killing of Lady Pachar a ...