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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

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

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

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

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

The 35-year-old entrepreneur delivered a short speech in which he appealed for the renewal of the political class

The young businessman Daniel Noboa will be sworn in as new president this Thursday and faces daunting challenges, including high rates of homicide, corruption and poverty

The 35-year-old entrepreneur is relatively unknown to his compatriots, but they elected him to counter the leftist drift initiated by former President Rafael Correa

The young businessman, who is the son of the richest man in Ecuador, will lead a country devastated by violence and drug trafficking

President Guillermo Lasso dismissed the commander general of the National Police and the director of prisons

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

The former president argues that his opponents will not be able to defeat his candidate, Luisa González, in the presidential runoff on October 15

Rising violence in Ecuador and the lack of a police presence in many areas of the capital has led residents to form vigilante groups to tackle criminals

The candidate for the Citizen Revolution Movement won 33% of the vote in the first round, while the businessman came in second place with 24%

The presidential election campaign has been marked by violence and the assassination of one of the candidates amid a wave of organized crime-related terror

A wave of violence in the run-up to Sunday’s ballot led candidates to end their campaigns screened by police escorts following the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio

The politician, who was close to President Guillermo Lasso, was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito

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

The owner of UC Global, which held a security contract at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also kept intimate images of a diplomat in his safe for alleged blackmail attempt

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

The former Ecuadorian president is not ruling out convening a Constituent Assembly to invalidate the 2018 referendum that prevents him from running for reelection

Contrary to expectation, President Lasso’s decision to call new elections did not spark mass protests, or even backlash from opposition political parties