Bolívar Garzón, head of Ecuador's Prison Department ... Garzón said that the riot, the latest in a wave of prison violence in the Andean country, was caused by “a struggle for control ...

Human rights groups have described Ecuador's penitentiary crisis as a “prison genocide” At least one inmate was killed and two others were injured Monday in yet a new prison riot in Ecuador ...

Violence in Ecuador worsened in January after a gang leader escaped from prison amid deadly riots. Two days later, members of ...

Violence in Ecuador intensified in January after a gang leader escaped from prison amid deadly riots. Two days later, members ...

Violence in Ecuador worsened in January after a gang leader escaped from prison amid deadly riots. Two days later, members of another drug gang attacked a television channel and interrupted a live ...

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“They were kids that loved soccer.” Violence in Ecuador worsened in January after a gang leader escaped from prison amid deadly riots. Two days later, members of another drug gang attacked a ...

Violence in Ecuador intensified in January after a gang leader escaped from prison amid deadly riots. Two days later, members of another drug gang attacked a television channel and interrupted a ...

The who’s who of Silicon Valley and Washington converged at Peter Thiel’s Beaux-Arts mansion in D.C. on Saturday evening, as ...

President Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for another six years on Friday, despite evidence that he lost a July election ...

I feel very deeply that when people are put in prison without trials and tortured ... expressways to protest high fuel prices, setting off riots, which left 100 injured and led to more than ...