The heads were suspended between two wooden poles and tied to a length of green rope on a beach in the Pacific resort of Puerto Lopez.

Ecuador gang violence escalates as five severed heads discovered on tourist beach in Puerto Lopez, highlighting country's record homicide rate amid military crackdown.

Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, overcrowded prisons in a once-peaceful country now at ...

Ecuador‘s most wanted fugitive, a gang leader and drug-lord known as Fito, was captured after hiding out in a bunker underneath a house. Fito, whose real name is Adolfo Macías Villamar, is the leader of Los Choneros, a criminal gang known for its ...

Ecuadorian prosecutors have charged former Interior Minister José Serrano with helping plan the high-profile assassination of a presidential candidate in 2023, marking a crucial moment in the country’s fight against corruption. On September 3, Ecuador ...

The president of violence-wracked Ecuador on Wednesday proposed the creation of a special body to draw up a new constitution with tougher laws against drug trafficking and organized crime. The Barron's news department was not involved in the creation of the content above. This article was produced by AFP. For more information go to AFP.com.