Carolina Mella

Relatives of the victims of the latest massacre at the Guayaquil penitentiary have been waiting for days to identify the bodies of their loved ones

The city of Manta’s local leader Agustín Intriago was shot during a tour of a construction site, while riots have broken out in at least four prisons in the country

In a crime-afflicted area of Quito, locals stood up to a violent crew operating in their midst by throwing stones and setting fire to the home of the alleged ringleader, a woman known as ‘La Pastora’

The candidate for the August presidential elections defines himself as an ‘outsider,’ claiming his position is neither left, right nor center

A doctor declared the patient dead last Friday, hours before she regained consciousness. The cause of death was cardiorespiratory arrest, according to the death certificate

On May 17, the Ecuadorian leader invoked article 148 of the constitution, ‘mutual death,’ a measure by which he dissolved the National Assembly and called snap elections

Rescuers continue to search for locals buried under the rubble after Sunday’s landslide