Ecuador's Intelligence Law would expand the authority of the Strategic Intelligence Center, allowing it to collect personal data, conduct wiretaps and carry out raids without a court order. That law ...

The deaths occurred Sunday at a prison in the coastal city of Machala, Ecuador, after "the detonation of an explosive device" ...

El presidente Noboa pronuncia un discurso junto a funcionarios de seguridad en la ciudad de Durán en 2024. Crédito: Reuters Ecuador’s government marked two years in office by trumpeting the results of ...

Over the past decade, drug trafficking and organized crime have transformed Ecuador from one of Latin America's safest countries into one of the most dangerous places in the world. According to the ...

Sept. 10 (UPI) --Between January and June 2025, Ecuador's Interior Ministry recorded 294 killings of minors, compared with 196 in the first half of 2024. The 50% increase reflects a rapid ...

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This week we look at surges of violence in Haiti, Ecuador and Mexico, where struggles for territorial control are growing evermore intense.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday promised security aid to violence-wracked Ecuador as he sought to rally the region behind a force-first anti-crime campaign following a US strike on a ...

Authorities in Ecuador have used secret intelligence reports to freeze the bank accounts of Ecuadorian Indigenous and ...

Ms. González Calanche spent months interviewing dozens of community members, law enforcement officers, current and former government officials and former members of criminal groups in Ecuador. When ...

Juanita Goebertus Estrada, on behalf of Human Rights Watch, located at 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor, New York, NY 10118, United States, presents this amicus curiae brief to the Constitutional Court of ...