QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government has canceled a plan to trade outdated Soviet weapons for new arms from the United States, President Daniel Noboa said, after learning the old weapons would have been sent to Ukraine. Noboa, who is grappling with sharply deteriorated security and has declared 22 criminal gangs to be terrorist groups, said […]
In a forest of Ecuador, a roughly 1-foot-long creature with spiky “eyelashes” perched on a plant and waited. The venomous animal was hunting, but what came along next was not a meal. Scientists encountered the patient predator and captured it. It turned out to be a new species. Researchers wanted to study a group of […]
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify over the weekend after the European nation decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador. The two countries have been at loggerheads recently after Ecuador decided to transfer some of its old Russian military equipment to the United States, in […]
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s police on Monday said they have captured the leader of Colombian armed group Oliver Sinisterra and that Ecuadorean authorities will return him to Colombia. News of the capture comes amid a military offensive launched by Ecuador’s government to combat criminal gangs. President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency with nighttime […]
BUENOS AIRES/QUITO (Reuters) -Argentine authorities detained the wife and children of fugitive Ecuadorean drug trafficker Jose Adolfo Macias and deported them early on Friday to Ecuador, authorities said. Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich told a press conference that authorities detained eight people – including other associates of Macias – who arrived in Argentina on Jan. […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa, but never before with such intensive street gang violence and a presidential declaration of a state of “internal armed conflict” this week in Ecuador. Gunmen from […]
STORY: Gunmen stormed the public broadcaster’s studio on Tuesday afternoon, carrying long-range guns, grenades and dynamite, part of a wave of violence that has prompted President Daniel Noboa to name 22 gangs as terrorist organizations to be targeted by the military. The gunmen said several times they were part of La Firma, a gang associated […]
Americans of Ecuadorian descent have watched in horror, fear and sadness as drug trafficking-related violence has escalated, putting the country at war with violent gangs. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a Florida Democrat born in Ecuador who served in Congress from 2019 to 2021, said she learned of the outbreak of violence through a group chat among family […]
Ecuador president Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday that his country was “at war” with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison guards and other staff hostage and who briefly captured a TV station live on air and set off explosions in a surge of violence that has left city streets deserted. Mr Noboa […]
Semafor Signals Insights from El País, The Cuenca Dispatch, and The Economist The News Ecuador has been rocked this week by explosions, gang leaders escaping from jail, prison riots breaking out, the kidnapping and killing of police, and the storming of a TV studio during a live broadcast. In response to the wave of gang-related […]
Some attacks by armed men, notably an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast, have shone a light on Ecuador’s spiralling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting […]
Some attacks by armed men, notably an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast, have shone a light on Ecuador’s spiralling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting […]