Ecuador central bank chief Guillermo Avellán announced his resignation Tuesday, saying he would leave the job more than a ...

FILE - Catholic deacon Mario Rene Garcia sprinkles holy water with a blessing for Martial Martinez as he peeks out from a window during a procession celebrating the feast day of Paraguay's patroness, ...

A 14-year-old boy who was killed in downtown Chicago during one of two Friday night shootings that also injured eight others has been identified, and his death ruled a homicide.

Ecuador's prison authority said on Wednesday that 10 inmates at the Litoral prison in the capital Guayaquil were found dead between Monday and Tuesday, possibly from tuberculosis.

People celebrate following the first results of the constitutional reform referendum in Guayaquil, Ecuador on November 16, 2025. Photo by GERARDO MENOSCAL / AFP Ecuadoran voters roundly rejected the ...

Facing a surge in gang violence and drug-linked crime, Ecuador’s government launched a military crackdown. Critics allege the military has ‘disappeared’ innocents, including 11-year-old Steven Gerald ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A 16-year-old soccer player from the youth academy of Independiente del Valle was fatally shot when he was struck by a stray bullet at home in the port city of Guayaquil, police ...

Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) – Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador's most violent city says residents are living through a "collective ...

QUITO, Oct 14 (Reuters) - A vehicle exploded outside a shopping mall in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, killing one person and injuring several others, the country's prosecutor's office said on ...

One person has died and two others were injured after a pickup truck exploded on a bustling shopping street in the port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Tuesday evening. The local governor swiftly ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A pickup truck exploded on a busy shopping street in the port city of Guayaquil in Ecuador on Tuesday evening killing one person and injuring two others in what the governor ...

ASHLAND, Ky. (WOWK) — Gerardo Mejia was a Latin pop star in the early 1990s, rising to fame after creating the hit song “Rico Suave.“ Today, instead of spending his days performing, his time is ...