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

Seventy-five tourists become stranded overnight in Quito, Ecuador, when a glitch halts the TelefériQo gondola lift, requiring a ten-hour rescue operation.
2023-07-7

Twelve people are killed after riots break out in a prison in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2023-04-14

Four people are killed after a boat sinks in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
2022-09-26

Twenty-four people are killed and 42 others are wounded during a battle between rival gangs at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Some of the inmates were armed with guns and grenades.
2021-09-28

Ecuador issues a volcano alert for Tungurahua covering nearby Tungurahua and Chimborazo provinces.
2012-12-16

In the stand-off between Britain and Ecuador over Julian Assange, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gives a speech critical of the United States' policy against Wikileaks, "dragging us all in a dark, repressive world in which journalists live under fear of prosecution", from the balcony of Ecuador's London embassy.
2012-08-19

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange gives an interview on Australian radio as his attempt to gain political asylum in Ecuador continues.
2012-06-22

A state of emergency in place in Ecuador after the 2010 Ecuador crisis is extended to Friday.
2010-10-5

Philip Alston expresses concern at the rise in murders in Ecuador and the declining number of murderers being caught.
2010-07-16