Quito

A journey to the world’s third largest exporter of the flowers reveals long working hours, pesticide exposure, illness and oftentimes-dismal wages for laborers

Roque Sevilla is the first Ecuadorian to receive the International Union for Conservation of Nature award

Murders of minors have risen by 50% in a country wracked by violence and drug trafficking

Renato Ortuño has become the second person to legally claim his right to a dignified death in Ecuador

What was once a free municipal procedure in the city of Guayaquil is now a shadow business without state control

His extradition is being viewed as a victory by the Daniel Noboa administration, but it also evidences a lack of confidence in the local justice system

José Adolfo Macías, leader of the feared gang Los Choneros, is the first local drug kingpin to be handed over. His trial is raising expectations in Ecuador over the potential revelations that could emerge in the courtroom

President Daniel Noboa announces the end of a 17-month manhunt that exposed the vulnerability of the country’s security and prisons system

Solanda, south of Ecuador’s capital, is experiencing a wave of murders as a result of turf wars between criminal organizations

The conservative president won re-election in a run-off against the leftist Luisa González by almost 12 points, a margin that no poll had anticipated

The conservative president and the left-wing candidate were almost tied and a runoff is scheduled for April 13. The winner will have to contend with a security crisis fueled by local gangs and Mexican drug cartels

As the largest gangs shift their confrontations with the government to the Ecuadorian capital, it has become the scene of terrorist attacks and a multitude of homicides

Huertomanías is a Quito work co-op that employs people living with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression — and hosts prize-winning guided visits

Verónica Abad accuses the president and four other officials before the courts, while the politician tries to stop her from assuming power in January, when he must step aside to campaign for the election

The investigation into the assassination of the presidential candidate is mired in allegations of corruption and security failures

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

Moscow has partially prohibited imports from Quito under suspicion that the Soviet-origin weapons to be exchanged with Washington for ‘modern’ materiel will end up in Ukraine

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

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

‘I feel like a part of my life was taken away from me that will not come back,’ says a reporter who is now living in exile

It’s the only Ecuadorian drink that bears a designation of national origin. The production of this beverage has given rise to a social project that centers women

According to a source, the six men — who were being held in Guayaquil’s Litoral prison — were hanged in a cellblock

The mayor of the coastal municipality does not stay in the same place for more than one night after an assassination attempt and authorities cannot safeguard the lives of schoolchildren amid a gang turf war

Poverty, exclusion and violence: this is the story behind Johan David Castillo and the other assassins who were hired to kill Fernando Villavicencio

Authorities attribute the country’s spike in violence over the past three years to a power vacuum triggered by the killing in 2020 of Jorge Zambrano, alias ‘Rasquiña’ or ‘JL,’ the leader of the local Los Choneros gang