Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador's most violent city ...

Police said the Los Lobos gang -- designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. -- was suspected of the attack on ...

A display of confiscated vessels at a naval base in Ecuador offers a peek at why drug smuggling is so hard to stop.

Ecuador’s unrest is part of a broader trend pitting the population against right-wing governments across Latin America.

Explore Machachi City, a highland town nestled in the Ecuadorian Andes along the Avenue of the Volcanoes. This ...

Ecuador has released the survivor of a US strike on a submarine alleged to have been smuggling drugs in the Caribbean.

The last time Andrés Fernando Tufiño Chila’s sister heard from him was about a year ago when he told her he was heading out to fish for work, she said. Last week, she was shocked to learn that her ...

Operation Pacific Viper resulted in massive cocaine seizures totaling 100,000 pounds, though expert says cartels move 3,000-4 ...

As Ecuador's president uses the military on the front line of his war on drug gangs, claims of abuses against civilians in the South American country have soared.

They were sent with 400 other people fleeing war and repression in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, China and Sudan, and were among ...

US military strikes that Washington claims have targeted "narco-terrorists" ferrying drugs to American soil are having little ...