A police officer looks at a bullet-riddled police car at a crime scene where colleagues were killed in Guayaquil, Ecuador on Nov. 1, 2022 REUTERS Police officers investigate a crime scene where a ...

In recent years, Ecuador has plunged into violence amid the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use its ports, like Guayaquil, to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. Homicides ...

Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil, left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday. Gun battles broke out ...

It was the dead of night when homemade explosives detonated Sunday in a populous neighborhood in Guayaquil, one of Ecuador’s largest cities and the country’s commercial hub. The explosion left ...

Cameras at TC Televisión’s station in Guayaquil, Ecuador, caught gunmen taking over the studio during a live broadcast before being arrested by the police. During a live news broadcast by TC ...

GUAYAQUIL/QUITO, July 13 (Reuters) - Violence is rising sharply in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, as criminal groups brawl to control transport of drugs despite increased seizures, security ...

Residents of Ecuador's largest city are walling themselves ... a resident and president of a neighborhood in Guayaquil, told news outlet EFE. An average of seven people a day were killed in ...

The news of hooded gunmen barging into a live television show and taking hostages in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and chief port, reverberated around the world Tuesday. On Wednesday ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A Ecuadorean journalist who was held hostage by gunmen during the takeover of a Guayaquil TV station and obliged to appear on camera at gunpoint told Reuters ...