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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

QUITO, March 7 (Reuters) - 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.

A March 6 gang attack left at least 22 people dead in Ecuador’s port city and drug trafficking hub, Guayaquil, local media reported. The violence rocked the Socio Vivienda and La Barraca neighborhoods ...

Both Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, and the prison itself are notorious for violent confrontations between rival gangs. By Tuesday afternoon, authorities said they had managed to regain ...

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 ...

Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, has suffered grievously in the country’s ongoing drug-fueled violence epidemic. In 2024, the city recorded nearly 2,000 homicides, government statistics show.

Gunmen attacked a group of people in Ecuador ’s coastal city of Guayaquil killing nine and injuring 10 others, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents in the South ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — Sunday's presidential election in Ecuador is one of the closest and most decisive in recent years. It comes as drug gang violence hits record levels, with Ecuador now ...