The Latest Breaking News from Guayaquil

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 · Sep 4, 2023

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 · Sep 4, 2023

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 · Aug 14, 2023

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

The Guardian - US · Nov 2, 2022

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 · Oct 6, 2022

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 · Oct 6, 2022

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.

Reuters · Sep 22, 2022

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

The Guardian - US · Aug 15, 2022

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.

Reuters · Aug 15, 2022

Shooting, blast in Ecuador port city kills 5, damages homes

Gunfire and a subsequent explosion have left at least five people dead, 15 injured and several others missing, as well as damaging homes, in the Ecuadorian port city of Guayaquil

The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2022