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Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa transfers 300 high-risk inmates, including former vice president Jorge Glas, to the El Encuentro maximum-security prison in Santa Elena as part of a security strategy targeting gang activity inside overcrowded prisons.
2025-11-10

Four inmates are killed and 30 others are injured during a prison riot in Machala, El Oro, Ecuador.
2025-11-9

At least seven people are killed in a mass shooting at a billiard hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador.
2025-08-17

The Government of Ecuador says that the three Ecuadorian journalists kidnapped by rebel members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on 26 March have been murdered. President Lenín Moreno orders military operations on the Colombian border to catch the murderers, offering a reward of US$100,000.
2018-04-13

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

The mother of Julian Assange reports that the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief has been "buoyed" by the public's support since he sought refuge in Ecuador's London embassy, refers to U.S. threats to withdraw billions of dollars in aid from Ecuador if it granted asylum, and condemns the Australian government, which has not sought to intervene on behalf of her son, as "nothing more than a puppet" of the United States.
2012-06-25

Authorities in Ecuador evacuate nearby residents as the Tungurahua erupts.
2011-04-26

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