Adolfo Macias, alias "Fito," was captured in June after escaping from a maximum security prison last year in a jailbreak that ...

When undocumented immigrants pleaded for care, Mauricio Sarmiento felt compelled to help them, according to his attorney. The doctor from Ecuador pleaded guilty to introducing misbranded drugs ...

Ecuador’s prison population surged to 40,000 inmates in 2021 from 11,000 in 2009, driven by a policy adopted under Mr. Correa that keeps the accused in jail until their trial, as well as harsher ...

Ecuador’s violence has been rising since former President Correa expelled the U.S. anti-narcotics base in Manta and struck a deal with drug gangs ...

Spanish police have made a record cocaine seizure, finding 9.5 tonnes of the drug hidden among boxes of bananas in a shipping container from Ecuador in the southern port of Algeciras.