Ecuador gang violence escalates as five severed heads discovered on tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, highlighting country's record homicide rate amid military crackdown.

Ecuador witnessed a 30% increase in murders in 2025, challenging President Daniel Noboa's government amid turf wars between ...

Ecuador experienced a significant 30.4% increase in murders in 2025 compared to the previous year. The country's interior ...

GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador on Friday deployed 10,000 soldiers in three coastal provinces to fight drug-trafficking gangs blamed for a ...

ECUADOR: Armed attackers killed at least 14 civilians, including a child, in two separate attacks on Sunday in coastal Ecuador, authorities said, as drug trafficking gangs battle for control. Since ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Five human heads were found hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador, police said on Sunday, as the country reels from a wave of violence related to drug trafficking.

Caption Ecuadorian authorities seize several tons of cocaine. automation The port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, has become one of the most critical transit points in the worldwide cocaine trade. The ...

In a decisive referendum held on Sunday, Ecuadorian citizens overwhelmingly rejected a constitutional amendment that would have allowed foreign military bases on the country’s soil. Ecuador has in ...

(Luis SUAREZ/AFP/AFP) Thirteen inmates died at the weekend in a prison in Ecuador that has seen 44 killed in violence in the past month, authorities said Monday. The deaths occurred Sunday at a prison ...

Police in Ecuador have found five human heads displayed on a beach in Puerto Lopez. The discovery, made on Sunday, is linked to ongoing drug-trafficking violence in the area.