Sources: El Universal
The National Assembly approves the Private Security and Surveillance Law, aimed at strengthening and regulating security companies to combat the country's rising crime rates. 2023-12-5
At least seven people are killed by a landslide in Alausí, Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. 2023-03-27
Ten people are killed after a prison riot breaks out near Quito, Ecuador. 2022-11-18
The Ecuadoran environmental ministry reports that approximately 2 ha of the Cayambe Coca Ecological Reserve have been contaminated following an oil spill attributed to a ruptured pipeline. 2022-01-31
The death toll from yesterday's riot between rival gangs at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, increases to 116, making the incident the deadliest prison riot in the country's history. 2021-09-29
Ecuador's health regulatory authority Arcsa approves the usage of the CanSino Convidecia vaccine. 2021-06-15
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
The highest court in Ecuador upholds a criminal libel verdict favoring the President Rafael Correa including prison sentences for three executives and a columnist for the opposition newspaper "El Universo". 2012-02-16