Ecuador

Five rescue dogs have been honored by Ecuador’s Fire Department at a ceremony formally retiring them after seven years of service and turning them over to new adoptive owners.

Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador ’s coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday.

Officials in Ecuador have named a likely source of contaminated ground cinnamon used in fruit pouches tied more than 400 cases of lead poisoning in U.S. children.

Many people stayed home and soldiers roamed the streets of Ecuador’s biggest cities Wednesday, the day after armed gang members invaded a television station during a live broadcast.

At least seven police officers have been kidnapped in Ecuador by criminals and authorities reported a series of explosions a day after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency.

Armed men have broken into the set of a public television channel in Ecuador as it broadcast live and threatened people while claiming to have bombs.

An inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election.

Scientists with the Schmidt Ocean Institute discovered a new hydrothermal vent field in the Galapagos Islands, larger than a professional soccer field.

Lionel Messi and Argentina will take on Ecuador Thursday to kickstart 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying games. Here’s how to watch.

Ecuador’s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine.

Ecuador is holding a special election to pick a new president amid unprecedented violence, including the assassination of a candidate earlier this month.

Ecuador’s government has moved the leader of one of the country’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security prison.

An Ecuadorian police report says the six men arrested as suspects in the assassination of an anti-corruption presidential candidate are Colombian nationals.

The U.S. Department of State issued a travel advisory in June 2023 recommending tourists to visit the country with increased caution.

Fernando Villavicencio was one of eight candidates in the country’s presidential election.

The killing comes amid a startling wave of violence in the South American nation, with drug trafficking and violent killings on the rise.