Ecuador

The government pointed out the country was facing an extreme drought, which has affected the eastern and southern regions, where 90% of the hydroelectric plants were located.

A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol.

Ecuador's president-elect Daniel Noboa, its youngest ever, is bracing for a titanic clash with narco traffickers that have turned the South American country upside down with a spate of horrific violence.

Ecuadorians vote for a new president Sunday in the midst of a bloody drug war and a rash of political assassinations that cut short the bid of a popular candidate

Shell-shocked by the eruption of a bloody drug war that has spilled from the country's prisons into the streets, Ecuadorans will vote for a new president Sunday just weeks after a popular candidate was assassinated in public.

To do their work of reporting the news -- a crucial job ahead of Sunday's looming presidential election -- many journalists in Ecuador now don bulletproof vests and helmets.

These are the highlights of Mayor Eric Adams' trip, aimed at stemming a migratory flow from the region that has strained the city's resources

After news broke of the prison deaths, Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced he would immediately return from a trip to New York to handle the incident.

From robberies on land to hold-ups at sea by rifle-toting, hooded men, Ecuador's shrimp industry is facing a wave of violent crime that is threatening the country's star export.

From the fields of South America to the streets of New York, this entrepreneur weaved his own brand while providing costumes for the performances of Ecuadorian actors in the city

Officials from the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Uruguay presented their best products and services to attract Chinese investment.

The wave of attacks was an apparent show of force by organized crime gangs that claimed no victims, while the uprising in the prisons was believed to be a riposte to a police sweep of jails to confiscate weapons the day before.

The specter of violence looms over Daniel Noboa after the assassination of a top presidential contender just two weeks before the first-round vote on August 21, in which he came second.

Ecuadorans voted in a referendum on Sunday to halt the exploitation of an oil block in Yasuni National Park, one of the most diverse biospheres in the world.

After years of demands for a referendum, the country's highest court authorized the vote in May to decide the fate of "block 43," which contributes 12% of the 466,000 barrels of oil per day produced by Ecuador.

Presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez confirmed Pedro Briones' killing in a tweet, saying that the local organizer "fell at the hands of violence."

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso confirmed Fernando Villavicencio's assassination and suggested organized crime was behind the attack.

The 17 guards and administrative workers had been held at a prison in Esmeraldas, in the violence-hobbled country's northwest.

The latest battle between rival gangs at the overcrowded, violence-hobbled Guayas 1 prison in the port city of Guayaquil has left 31 people dead and 14 wounded.

The transportation manager of Petroecuador, the state-owned oil company, named Rafael Armendariz, confirmed the incident on Thursday.

The experts will present the results of investigations conducted as part of the "Galapagos Living Lab for Energy Innovation" initiative.

Ecuador is seeking international funds ahead of expected El Nino weather disruptions.

Six rivers have flooded as a result of 12 hours of rain, according to President Guillermo Lasso, and more than 500 people had to be evacuated from their houses.

The conservative president Guillermo Lasso accused the opposition-controlled National Assembly of obstructing reform.

The horrifying event occurred at a mechanic shop in the southwest of the city, and one witness claimed it was a shooting.

The landslide occurred on Sunday night, and as of Tuesday, the official death toll stood at 11.

Journalists in Ecuador were targeted by explosive devices that were sent as letters to them.

Authorities reported that El Oro province in the south was the worst impacted, with 12 fatalities reported there.

About 25 people died and several others were injured after a passenger bus fell into a ravine.

At the top of Ecuadoran President GUillermo Lasso's priorities is securing help in battling drug cartels that have waged open warfare in his nation's streets and prisons.