By Kimberley Brown Intense protests flared up last December in communities opposed to Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s ...

It came shortly after UN torture prevention experts visited Ecuador to assess its efforts to curb prison violence. In April Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency in ...

At least 44 inmates have been killed in Ecuador's latest deadly prison riot, the public prosecutor has said. A fight broke out between rival gangs Los Lobos and R7 at a prison in Santo Domingo ...

Daniel Noboa’s government should prioritize reforms to the justice system.

QUITO, Ecuador ... base to a prison. The case of the missing children has shaken Ecuador, a nation where the military has been increasingly deployed to patrol cities and fight drug gangs amid ...