Daniel Noboa

The company that fed 11,000 inmates has stopped providing services over a $30-million debt with the government, while accusations of torture in jails are on the increase

The new director of Amnesty International in the Americas has criticized the use of the military and heavy-handed measures to combat crime in the region: ‘The Armed Forces are not trained to ensure public safety’

In an 11-question referendum, the president fared worse on two economic issues, but received backing to allow the Armed Forces to carry out operations with the police without needing to declare a state of emergency

The majority of 11 questions posed to voters focus on tightening security measures

President Daniel Noboa has suspended work and school on Thursday and Friday, and accuses the outgoing energy minister of having hidden the problem

In under a year, two mayors and four councilors have been killed, while another 30 local officials faced threats and assassination attempts

The attack on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador highlights a turbulent panorama in which diplomatic crises and bilateral tensions threaten regional integration

Mexico will take Ecuador embassy raid to the International Court of Justice and asks the United Nations to suspend the Andean nation

Daniel Noboa’s government described Jorge Glas’ asylum at Mexican legation as a provocation and justified the assault as a necessary step to prevent impunity

The former Ecuadorian vice-president, arrested after the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, has pursued his career in parallel with the ex-president in foreign exile

Congress is rearming itself around an opposition bloc, arising from its rejection of President Daniel Noboa’s decision to order the raid to detain former vice-president Jorge Glas

The former vice president has been transferred to a prison in Guayaquil reserved for the most dangerous criminals

Officers entered the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito on Friday night to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas

Ecuadorian police forces burst into the site with armored cars and arrested former vice president Jorge Glas, who is convicted in two cases of corruption and had been granted political asylum by Mexico. President López Obrador has described the assault as a ‘flagrant violation of international law and sovereignty’

The Mexican president suggested that his Ecuadorian counterpart Daniel Noboa was elected due to the assassination of candidate Fernando Villavicencio

The recent killings have once again focused attention on the strategy of Daniel Noboa’s government to combat an epidemic of violence in the country

Three sources told EL PAÍS that officials are taking samples from prisoners, claiming it helps with identification in case of violent death

Two children were murdered every day in 2023 in Ecuador, which is suffering a wave of violence due to drug trafficking: ‘The state, society, and family, we have all failed them,’ says an expert

The former left-wing statesman criticizes incumbent right-wing President Daniel Noboa for failing to address the country’s security crisis and demands an immediate purge of the security forces, which have been infiltrated by organized crime

Police operations against gangs have been marred by the killing of one of the country’s most important anti-corruption investigators in broad daylight

The army entered the penitentiaries heavily armed Thursday and freed more than 150 people, including guards and administrative personnel, who were being held hostage

A night on patrol with Ecuadorian soldiers shows a glimpse of the war unleashed in the country between the authorities and the gangs

The country’s crime rate has rocketed, but the problems of drug trafficking and gang violence have been brewing since the 1980s

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared that the nation is at war after the two main criminal gangs in the country, Los Choneros and Los Lobos, took control of the prisons and took to the streets to sow chaos

About 20 hooded men with masks, weapons and dynamite took over the TC Television studio in the middle of the newscast. The journalists talk to EL PAÍS about the trauma of the assault