Sources: El Universal
Two people are killed and four more injured during a mass shooting in Manta, Ecuador. The city's mayor is among the killed. 2023-07-23
Eight people are killed and others are injured in a shootout outside a nightclub in La Concordia, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador. 2023-06-25
Ten people are killed after a prison riot breaks out near Quito, Ecuador. 2022-11-18
Ecuadorian indigenous groups attack a police station in Puyo, Pastaza, amid ongoing protests in the country. One protestor is shot dead by police. Eighteen police officers are missing, while another six are injured. 2022-06-22
WikiLeaks says that a high-level source within the government of Ecuador has informed them that Julian Assange will be expelled within "hours to days" and that Ecuador's government already has an agreement with the UK for his arrest. On April 2, 2019, Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno accused WikiLeaks of leaking the INA Papers, a set of documents published in February 2019 which uncover the operations of INA Investment Corp, an offshore tax haven created by the brother of President Moreno and allegedly reveal government corruption. 2019-04-5
Ecuador declares a state of emergency over increases in migrant entry from Venezuela. 2018-08-9
Pope Francis begans his tri-nation visit to Latin America arriving in Ecuador. Next he travels to Bolivia from July 8–10 and Paraguay from July 10–12, and returning to Rome on July 13. 2015-07-5
A representative for WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange declines a Metropolitan Police order to surrender himself at a police station, instead electing to remain in Ecuador's London embassy until he is granted asylum. 2012-06-29
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
Ecuador recognises Palestine as an independent state within its 1967 borders. 2010-12-25