Sources: CNN
The U.S. defense department says its military has carried out airstrikes on narcoterrorists in Ecuador at the request of the Ecuadorian government, targeting a camp belonging to a faction of the FARC dissidents at the border with Colombia. 2026-03-6
Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2024-03-31
Six people are killed and eight others injured in a shootout between rival gangs on a street in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador. 2023-06-19
Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica report their first cases of monkeypox. 2022-07-7
It is revealed that Ecuador granted citizenship to Julian Assange. Ecuador granted him asylum in August 2012 and he has remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London avoiding extradition to Sweden on rape charges. Subsequently, Swedish authorities dropped the charges in May 2017. 2018-01-11
Ecuador issues a volcano alert for Tungurahua covering nearby Tungurahua and Chimborazo provinces. 2012-12-16
Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct. 2012-06-19
Authorities in Ecuador order the evacuation of people from the slopes of the Tungurahua volcano after it begins spewing ash. 2010-12-4
Thousands of people flee the Pacaya volcano in Guatemala and the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador following eruptions. 2010-05-29