QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The mayor of Ecuador's third largest city was slain Sunday in a shooting that killed one other person and wounded four more, including two suspected attackers, officials said.

At least nine people were shot dead Saturday while playing pool in a tourist city in southwestern Ecuador, the country's prosecutor's office said. A group of armed men opened fire on several people at ...

This Sunday, Ecuadorans will vote on whether to allow foreign military bases to return to the country. In Manta, a Pacific city that for a decade hosted an outpost of US forces, opinions are divided.

Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths in Ecuador's second city Guayaquil have led to a shortage of coffins, forcing locals to resort to using cardboard boxes, city authorities said Sunday. Authorities in ...

The Ecuadorian government is brandishing the results of its national gang crackdown as a victory, but continuing violence in the city of Durán demonstrates the policy’s uneven impact. In recent weeks, ...