‘Thieves caught will be burned:’ Quito’s neighborhoods take security into their own hands
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
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Election results in Ecuador: Correa ally Luisa González and business tycoon Daniel Noboa to face off in presidential runoff
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%
Ecuadorians go to the polls in search of a president who will give them back their country
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
Ecuador presidential campaigning ends amid tight security and bulletproof vests
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
Ecuador: A nationwide fight against drug trafficking
Ernesto Samper|
The country is enduring a process similar to that experienced by Colombia in the 1980s and Mexico a few years later with an escalation of violence
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Ecuador declares state of emergency following assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio
The politician, who was close to President Guillermo Lasso, was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally in Quito
Violence escalates as Ecuador’s election campaign kicks off: Mayor of key drug port assassinated
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
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Spanish company that spied on Assange allegedly informed CIA about meetings held by Latin American leaders
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
Jan Topic, the millionaire businessman vying to emulate Bukele in Ecuador to the sound of ‘Top Gun’
The candidate for the August presidential elections defines himself as an ‘outsider,’ claiming his position is neither left, right nor center
Rafael Correa: ‘We can achieve what Bukele is trying to do, but without violence’
The former Ecuadorian president is not ruling out convening a Constituent Assembly to invalidate the 2018 referendum that prevents him from running for reelection
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Why the dissolution of Ecuador’s National Assembly has kept everyone happy
Contrary to expectation, President Lasso’s decision to call new elections did not spark mass protests, or even backlash from opposition political parties
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