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GOP frontrunner is skipping first 2024 Republican debate

No candidate in Sunday's special presidential election received enough support to be declared winner. The vote took place amid thousands of police officers and soldiers deployed across the country.

After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.

The unprecedented violence affecting Ecuador has claimed the life of another political leader, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three, including that of a presidential candidate

Ecuador's government has moved the leader of one of the country’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security prison

Pope Francis is strongly condemning the “unjustifiable” assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate

Historian Luke Nichter considers the turmoil you know about – assassinations, chaotic conventions, the racist rise of George Wallace – but also the backroom dramas you don’t

Ecuador is in a state of emergency after the assassination of a leading presidential candidate. Here's how the country got to this point.

If Ecuador’s politicians and state institutions continue to let criminal gangs have their way, it is only a matter of time before the country becomes a failed state