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Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen.
2024-09-13

Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-03-31

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

After an emergency summit, eleven nations of Latin America (including Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru) announce that they will all admit Venezuelan migrants without the required travel documents.
2018-09-5

Aid starts to flow in after an earthquake kills over 270 people in Ecuador.
2016-04-18

British police mass near the Ecuadorean embassy where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange resides, after Britain threatens to use force to extract him.
2012-08-16

A court in the city of Lago Agrio, on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorean people, orders United States oil company Chevron to pay more than $8 billion in environmental damages for dumping wastewater in the Amazon River twenty years ago.
2011-02-14

An overcrowded bus plunges into ravine near El Carmen, Ecuador, killing 41.
2010-12-25

All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead.
2010-10-20

Mexico states that it has the support of Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, the Federated States of Micronesia, Panama, Senegal, Turkey, and Uruguay in pursuing its case against Arizona's immigration law.
2010-07-21