Ecuador

Venezuelans living in Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Brazil have, on average, higher levels of education than locals

Economy Minister Juan Carlos Vega said that the government will also add 15% VAT (Value Added Tax) from April onwards.

Ecuador was planning to send six Russian military helicopters, long-range rocket launchers and air defense systems to the United States.

Traces of an Amazonian "lost city" were first discovered in 1978, but the full extent of what is now believed to be the largest and oldest such urban expanse were only revealed last year with the help of laser mapping.

President Daniel Noboa announced last month that Quito had agreed to exchange Russian military equipment that had become "scrap metal" for new US weapons worth around $200 million.

With seven of its nine judges voting in favor, the country's Constitutional Court opened the door for doctors to help an untreatable patient die without going to jail.

Daniel Noboa said the elections, set to take place this year but still without a clear date, "won't be free"

Their significant territorial presence and diversity of funding sources are the main reasons why the conflict can become a protracted one

Police in violence-plagued Ecuador arrested 68 people Sunday who had attempted to take over a hospital in the country's southwest in the midst of a "war" between drug gangs and the security forces.

The wife and three children of "Fito" Macías were in a gated community in the province of Córdoba

César Suárez also investigated drug-trafficking cases. He was shot while in a car in Guayaquil

The Guayas Estuary, with its 28 ports, is the heart of the violence-torn country's economy.

Nearly 180 officials were being held hostage inside the prisons following a security crisis catalyzed by the escape of a powerful drug lord

Only two CONMEBOL teams can qualify to the Paris 2024 soccer tournament; Brazil has won the last two gold medals

Recent mapping technology showed that a series of mounds and buried roads found in Ecuador were part of a network of settlements that lasted about 1,000 years

The South American country is a breeding ground for confrontation between local gangs linked to regional cartels, analysts say

President Noboa declared an "internal armed conflict" on Tuesday, but the country has been on a slippery slope for years; this is how we got here

Daniel Noboa identified several groups as "terrorist organizations and non-state belligerent actors"

"This is so you know you don't mess around with the gangs," said one of the people in the studio

The police operation ran for at least one year to capture Colombian brothers Hader and Dairon Cuero, leaders of Los Curva.

Macias was sentenced to 34 years of prison in 2011 for several crimes including drug trafficking and murder.

The 36-year-old president, who took over the office in November last year, said in a televised message that the court now had 20 days to respond to his letter.

Glas, who was convicted for corruption twice, requested Mexico for political asylum last week.

The vast creche belongs to the Discalced Carmelites, a religious order that has been present in Ecuador since 1653.

The 78-year-old agricultural businessman was kidnapped over the weekend, but police rescued him on Tuesday.

The tax reform is expected to generate over $830 million, which could help revitalize the economy of Ecuador.

The detention took place after the judiciary council, alongside the houses of judges, prosecutors and police officers, were raided on Thursday morning by 900 prosecutors and police officers.

Vice President Veronica Abad complained Tuesday that President Daniel Noboa was posting her to Tel Aviv to help seek Middle East peace -- apparently on a permanent basis.

The banana-empire heir will serve only 18 months, the rest of Lasso's term.

Noboa will serve as president at least until early 2025, the remaining term of current President Guillermo Lasso, who in May invoked a constitutional provision that simultaneously vacated the presidency and dissolved every seat of the National Assembly