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15 Jan
Ecuador's security forces on Sunday took back control of several prisons that had fallen into the hands of gang members, after securing the release of more than 200 officials held hostage inside the jails.
14 Jan
All 136 hostages seized during prison riots in Ecuador were freed on Saturday night, prison authorities said.
9 Jan
Ecuador's new president grappled Tuesday with a security nightmare as gangsters held four police officers hostage after he declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison. President Daniel Noboa, who is only 36, was elected in October on a pledge to fight rampant drug-related crime and violence in this…
9 Jan
At least four police officers were kidnapped in Ecuador following a declaration of a state of emergency on Monday after a dangerous narco boss escaped from maximum security detention.
23 Nov
Ecuador's new president, the 35-year-old millionaire heir to a business empire, Daniel Noboa, took office Thursday as the leader of a country gripped by a bloody drug war.
16 Oct
Car horns in Quito blared in celebration Sunday as banana empire heir Daniel Noboa, 35, became Ecuador's youngest-ever president-elect, vowing to "restore peace" to a country ravaged by a bloody drug gang war.
7 Oct
Six inmates were killed Friday during a disturbance inside a Guayaquil prison, authorities said, in the latest deadly unrest to strike Ecuador's penal system. "An event occurred" in one of the cellblocks of the Guayas 1 prison, "resulting in six dead people," the SNAI national prison authority said in a statement. The public prosecutor's office…
6 Oct
Ecuadoran prosecutors launched an investigation on Thursday into the distribution of videos generated by artificial intelligence that showed sexual content using images of students.
21 Aug 2023
Ecuadorans will choose between returning to socialism or preserving the conservative status quo in a presidential run-off set for October after Sunday's first round produced a left-right clash rather than an outright winner.
22 Jun 2023
Three inmates were found hanged Wednesday in a prison in Ecuador, where more than 400 people have died in bloody gang clashes at detention centers since 2021, authorities said.
21 May 2023
Gunmen in Ecuador opened fire in a restaurant in a beach town popular with tourists, killing at least six people and wounding six more, prosecutors said Sunday.
11 May 2023
China and Ecuador inked a free trade agreement on Wednesday that the South American country hopes will boost its non-oil exports by up to $4 billion over the next decade. The agreement covers 99.6 percent of Ecuador's exports and "opens the door to the largest market in the world: 1.4 billion consumers", trade minister Julio…

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