In Ecuador's highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2 candidates they don't trust
Their eyes are set on this and other small towns across the Andean country that will be key in the April 13 election ...
Ecuador Indigenous Leader Signals Support for Socialist
Ecuador’s most powerful Indigenous leader, Leonidas Iza, said he is leaning toward supporting the socialist candidate in ...
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Ecuador says will ask allied countries for special forces to fight drug gangs
Quito: Ecuador said Wednesday it will ask allied countries to send special forces to aid its war against drug gangs blamed ...
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Can Democracy Stop Extractivism and Authoritarianism?
Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.
Weekend clashes claim 14 lives in drug violence-torn Ecuador
Clashes between rival criminal groups claimed the lives of 14 people over the weekend in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, the epicent ...
14 killed in narco gang clashes as police warn of "reprisals"
In one incident, gunmen on motorcycles fired into a crowd gathered outside a grocery store, killing a child and six adult, police said.
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Ecuador says local cartel trade worth $30 bn a year
Ecuador's president admitted Tuesday that cartels and gangs move $30 billion worth of drugs, arms and other illicit goods through his country a year ...
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Hitmen mow down cartel-busting colonel in violence-torn Ecuador
Hitmen on Friday gunned down an Ecuadoran colonel in charge of anti-drug operations in a city hard-hit by the narco crime ...