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‘Help me, I’m dying’: In Ecuador’s TB-ridden gang-plagued prisons

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – In gang-plagued Ecuador, being sent to prison is increasingly a death sentence, whatever the crime. In a bid to free the country...

Ecuador soldiers sentenced to nearly 35 years in jail

GUAYAQUIL – Eleven Ecuadoran soldiers were sentenced to nearly 35 years in prison over the abduction and deaths of four children last year, whose...

Ecuador to vote on foreign troops, new constitution

QUITO – Ecuadorans will vote Sunday on whether to allow the return of foreign military bases and the drafting of a new constitution that...

Ecuador leader unharmed in attack on motorcade

QUITO – Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa escaped unharmed after his motorcade was targeted by stone-hurling protestors and what one minister described as a volley...

Rubio ramps up Ecuador support

QUITO, Ecuador – US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday (Friday Manila time) promised security aid to violence-wracked Ecuador as he sought to...

Millions return home as Pacific tsunami warnings lifted

Puerto Ayora, Ecuador—Tsunami warnings were lifted across the Pacific rim Wednesday, allowing millions of temporary evacuees to return home. After one of the strongest earthquakes ever...

Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunamis

Chiba, Japan—One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia's sparsely populated Far East on Wednesday, causing tsunamis up to four meters (12 feet) high...

Ecuador deports 603 Colombian inmates

BOGOTA – Colombian authorities said Saturday (Sunday Manila time) that Ecuador had deported 643 Colombian prisoners via a land border crossing, after Bogota protested...

Ecuador’s biggest druglord extradited to US

QUITO, Ecuador – The Ecuadoran government on Sunday extradited notorious drug trafficker Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito,” to the United States, a month after he...

9 shot dead at Ecuador pool bar

General Villamil, Ecuador — At least nine people were shot dead Saturday (Sunday Manila time) while playing pool in a tourist city in southwestern...

Ecuador’s most-wanted gang leader captured

QUITO – Ecuador’s president announced Wednesday that the country’s most-wanted fugitive, Los Choneros gang leader “Fito,” had been re-captured over a year after he...

Brazil, Ecuador make World Cup; Uruguay on brink

SAO PAULO—Brazil booked their place at the 2026 World Cup in North America on Tuesday with a lackluster 1-0 home victory over Paraguay, the...

Ecuador apologizes to farm workers deemed to live like slaves

Ecuador's government apologized Saturday to some 300 people who worked as farmers for a Japanese textile firm in conditions which a court likened to...

Ecuador declares emergency at fire-hit oil refinery

Quito, Ecuador—Ecuador on Thursday declared an emergency at the country's main oil refinery, where a fuel tank fire halted operations earlier this week, the state...
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