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The Ecuadorian government extends the country's state of emergency by a month.
2023-10-8

Ecuador declares a state of emergency in all prisons after gang clashes that killed 18 prisoners.
2023-07-25

Ecuadorian president Guillermo Lasso declares a nationwide state of emergency, citing an increase in drug-related crime.
2021-10-18

Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices. The protests have crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
2019-10-4

Ecuador declares a state of emergency over increased activity at the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito. Its last major eruption was in 1877.
2015-08-16

Ecuador declares a state of emergency in the Galápagos Islands after a ship, "The Floreana", carrying hazardous materials ran aground January 28.
2015-02-6

An Ecuadorean court orders the imprisonment of 12 police after last week's 2010 Ecuador crisis, with a lawyer saying they are being swept up in a "witch hunt".
2010-10-9

46 police officers in Ecuador are arrested on suspicion of involvement in last week's uprising.
2010-10-6

Ecuadorean Policy Minister Doris Soliz announces that parts of an austerity law which provoked the 2010 Ecuador crisis are to be rewritten.
2010-10-3

A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état.
2010-09-30