Bolívar Garzón, head of Ecuador's Prison Department, Friday explained the measure was being eyed for the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill. The country's prisons currently house some ...

Associated Press Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 1:36 p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 1:36 p.m. A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison early Saturday left at least 68 ...

He is believed to have escaped from his cell before his transfer to a maximum-security prison where he would be held in isolation, though no official in Ecuador has used the word “escape.” ...

We do evil': How rival gangs with 'Pablo Escobar complex' gave kill orders over the phone and spent thousands smuggling weapons into jail for Ecuador ... emergency in the prison system following ...

Video: Ecuador 'civil war' crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with ...

Increased violence highlights how Costa Rica is feeling the tightening grip of cocaine trafficking. But is the nation on a ...

Security forces in Ecuador have launched an operation in a major prison complex in the port city of Guayaquil. Soldiers and police officers have entered the facility and say they have restored ...

Ecuador’s ex-comptroller Carlos Ramon Polit ... who were convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for laundering more than $100 million in bribery payments to Miami and Switzerland.

Across Ecuador, gangs have unleashed a wave of violence and extortion, upending lives and spurring an unprecedented exodus.

An curved arrow pointing right. Gunmen stormed a live TV show in Ecuador and demanded an end to the crackdown on gangs that began when the country's most wanted prisoner escaped. More from News ...