Sources: CNN
Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2024-03-31
Brigitte García, the youngest mayor in Ecuador, and one of her advisors are found shot dead in Manabí Province, western Ecuador. 2024-03-24
Ecuador says it will pardon more than 2,000 inmates after 118 inmates were killed during a riot at a prison in Guayaquil on 28 September. A government official said that some prisoners will be prioritized and that the main goal is to address prison overcrowding. 2021-10-1
13 police officers are injured after an attack against a police command in San Lorenzo Canton, Ecuador.2018-01-27
Talks between the foreign ministers of Britain and Ecuador end with no breakthrough over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who remains in the country's London embassy. 2013-06-17
Ecuador issues a volcano alert for Tungurahua covering nearby Tungurahua and Chimborazo provinces. 2012-12-16
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
New Zealand's Chatham Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands are among the other world areas struck by the resulting tsunami as the "biggest tsunami warning in history" gets underway. 2010-02-27