Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez says her plans to spend on social welfare and impose harsher penalties for criminals will ...

Ecuadorean leftist Luisa Gonzalez says her plans to spend on social welfare and impose harsher penalties for criminals will ...

R unning Ecuador seems an unenviable job. In recent years it has become the most violent state in mainland Latin America.

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa is betting that his pledges to push crime-fighting initiatives begun under his truncated ...

People on the streets of Ecuador can rattle off the places they have encountered criminals. And they can just as easily list what was taken from them in robberies, kidnappings, burglaries and other ...

When he became the youngest president to be elected in Ecuador’s history, Daniel Noboa promised to attack twin crime and fiscal crises with a sense of urgency. His biggest victory, though, may have ...

The last time Ecuador held elections, in 2023, the country’s national assembly had been dissolved and then-President ...

In Ecuador's presidential election, both top candidates want a second chance. Gonzalez would be Ecuador's first elected woman ...

The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, and his main rival, Luisa Gonzalez, were holding events Sunday for their electoral ...

Drug-related violence that has rocked Ecuador in recent years is once again the biggest issue for many voters in Sunday's ...

Ahead of Ecuador's presidential election, crime reduction remains pivotal. President Daniel Noboa, leveraging military force ...

Ecuadorians vote Sunday for the country's next president as drug-related cartel and mafia violence run rampant. 'Iron fist' ...