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Ecuador declares emergency as drug-gang kingpin vanishes from prison

Huge manhunt under way after Adolfo Macías of Los Choneros disappears from cell and guards taken hostage amid prison riots

The Guardian - US

7 of the best places to visit in Ecuador

Delightful colonial cities, active volcanoes and sections of the Amazon await you in the land of the Equator

The Independent UK

Kidnapped former British honorary consul rescued in Ecuador

Police say Colin Armstrong safe and well after being kidnapped with his partner on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

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‘People are dying in the street’: Ecuador election overshadowed by violent crime

The country goes to the polls this weekend after a campaign marked by bloodshed and the assassination of a candidate

The Guardian - US

Six suspects in assassination of Ecuador candidate are found dead in prison cell

Alleged assassins found dead in notorious Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil

The Independent UK

Colombians held over Ecuador presidential candidate’s murder slain in jail

Ecuador’s president pledges to get to bottom of killings in prison of six Colombian suspects in high-profile murder.

Al Jazeera

‘We should treat it as a war’: Ecuador’s descent into drug gang violence

Successive governments have been unable to rein in violence as South American country became cocaine superhighway

The Guardian - US

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Drug cartels: How cocaine and bananas fuel violence in once-peaceful Ecuador

Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine

The Independent UK

Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine

Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine

The Independent UK

Ecuador was calm and peaceful. Now hitmen, kidnappers and robbers walk the streets

Ecuador used to be one of Latin America's most peaceful nations

The Independent UK

Armed attackers kill 10, wound 3 in Ecuador port Guayaquil

Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) - At least 10 people were killed overnight when heavily armed assailants opened fire outside a shop in Guayaquil, Ecuador's main port city and economic hub that is under a state of emergency due to rising drug violence, police said Sunday.

AFP

Armed attack kills 10 in Ecuador port Guayaquil

An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor's office of Ecuador and police reported on Sunday. Three people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, police said on Sunday.

Reuters

Ecuador’s criminal gangs bring death and mayhem amid political gridlock

Gunmen in speedboats, carnage in prisons … ‘We do not deny that we are in the worst moment of violence in the country,’ says defence minister as embattled president clings to office

The Guardian - US

Ecuador police defuse bomb strapped to guard

Quito (AFP) - Ecuadoran explosives experts defused a bomb on the streets of Guayaquil Thursday that criminals had strapped to a security guard after his employer refused to pay protection money, police and media said.

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AFP

Five Ecuador TV stations receive letter bombs, one explodes

Quito (AFP) - Letter bombs were sent to at least five journalists working in TV and radio stations in violence-plagued Ecuador Monday, one of which exploded without causing serious injury, Interior Minister Juan Zapata said.

WEKU

A strong earthquake has killed at least 15 in Ecuador and 1 in Peru

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 6.8 magnitude earthquake centered just off the Pacific Coast, about 50 miles south of Guayaquil, Ecuador's second-largest city.

AFP

H: the heroin derivative ravaging Ecuador's poor

Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) - Shaking and delirious, Rina ambles half-dressed beside a dump in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil.

Daily Mirror

Ecuador emergency after 9 car bombs detonated, cops killed and headless bodies discovered

The latest spate of carnage comes just months after a deadly bomb attack killed at least five and injured 17 people in Guayaquil

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The Guardian - US

Headless bodies and deadly bombs: cartel violence escalates in Ecuador

On Tuesday, President Guillermo Lasso announced a curfew under a new state of emergency in Guayas and Esmeraldas regions

AFP

Flamengo beat Athletico Paranaense to win Copa Libertadores

Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) - Flamengo won the all-Brazilian Copa Libertadores final on Saturday with a 1-0 victory over Athletico Paranaense in the Estadio Monumental.

Reuters

Human rights concerns grow over Ecuador prison riots -U.N. officials

United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates dead and more than 20 prisoners and police injured.

Reuters

Latest Ecuador prison riot leaves at least 11 injured

A prison riot in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil on Wednesday has left at least 11 inmates and police officers injured, the SNAI prison authority said in a preliminary report, just days after a deadly riot at another jail.

Reuters

Demonstrators in Ecuador protest woman's killing, demand payment to pension system

Demonstrators took to the streets in Ecuador on Wednesday to protest the death of a woman the government says was killed by her police officer husband, while union workers demanded the government pay what it owes the state social security system, threatening to escalate protests if there was no agreement.

The Guardian - US

Ecuador city declares state of emergency amid dramatic rise in gang bombings

Gangs in Guayaquil use increasingly violent tactics in battle for dominance of cocaine trafficking routes to Europe and the US

Reuters

Ecuador says deadly Guayaquil blast connected to crime gangs, investigation ongoing

The government of Ecuador has authorized security forces in Guayaquil to carry out inspections of houses as part of a new state of emergency, the interior minister said, after an explosives attack killed five people over the weekend.

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