Ecuador

The final match of this edition of the tournament organized by CONMEBOL and CONCACAF will be played at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida

Some of the venues on the list will also be used for the 2026 World Cup

Unidentified bodies have been stacked in a single container after the rest broke down in the violence-plagued city of Guayaquil

Manta is the epicenter of drug trafficking organizations that ship globally and the scene of a recent triple crime outside a circus

The thousands of people living in shelters set up by the city, which has received nearly 200,000 immigrants since 2022, denounce the lack of a long-term plan. Since last week, the situation has worsened with cuts to the maximum length of stay

Inmates at Guayaquil’s Litoral penitentiary, the country’s most notorious prison, recount the humiliations they have been subjected to since the military took control of the facility

The president says the decision was made to prevent opponents from using it as a political tool against him

Human rights lawyers wonder who will issue vital documents now that Ecuador has closed its diplomatic missions on Mexican territory in protest over last month’s assault on the embassy in Quito

Lavinia Valbonesi received authorization from the Ministry of the Environment two weeks after her husband Daniel Noboa took office

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’

The country is shocked by the death of the popular 23-year-old entrepreneur, whose murder was captured by security cameras. Her name came up in messages found on a drug dealer’s phone

The study of several families with Laron Syndrome in Ecuador opens up the possibility of searching for a drug or diet that could mimic its beneficial effects

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

William J. Burns invoked the agency’s statutory privileges to avoid giving a New York judge details of the spying operation that was revealed by EL PAÍS in 2019

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

Judges deemed the arrest ordered by President Noboa to be arbitrary, but they also denied a request by Glas’ defense to take him out of La Roca prison and send him back to the diplomatic mission

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