The Latest Breaking News from Ecuador

The International Monetary Fund executive board said Friday it had concluded its fourth and fifth reviews for Ecuador's 27-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF), allowing for the immediate disbursement of about $1 billion.

A group of opposition lawmakers in Ecuador are pushing for the removal of conservative President Guillermo Lasso after nearly two weeks of mass protests led by indigenous groups demanding lower fuel and food prices, though other legislators say they will not back his ouster.

Ecuador's government is trying to retake control of Puyo, a city in the country's Amazon region, after violent clashes and the burning of a police station by demonstrations during nationwide protests against the economic policies of President Guillermo Lasso.

Ecuador’s defense minister is warning that the country’s democracy is at risk as Indigenous protesters attack the prosecutor’s office and demonstrations against the government and rising fuel prices turn increasingly violent in Quito

Ecuadorean protesters who have held more than a week of marches and road blockades over President Guillermo Lasso's economic policies, will not meet the government until it withdraws security forces from some areas of the capital, an indigenous leader said Tuesday.

Thousands of indigenous demonstrators marched through Ecuador's capital on Monday urging President Guillermo Lasso to agree to demands for economic and social support, the latest in a series of protests that have injured dozens and disrupted the economy.

Hundreds of indigenous people entered Ecuador's capital Quito on Sunday, following almost a week of protests against the economic and social policies of President Guillermo Lasso, who has not been able to lift road blocks and violence across the country.

He tried to move millions of euros from Amsterdam to South America and inquired about sourcing kilos of heroin and cocaine from the Netherlands

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of exception in three of the Andean country's provinces, in a bid to calm protests called by indigenous groups in rejection of the government's economic policies.