Sources: El Universal
Ecuador announces a three-day mourning period after eleven soldiers are killed in an ambush by guerrillas. 2025-05-10
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa repeals the country's ten-year policy permitting possession of small drug quantities in an effort to curb "micro-trafficking". 2023-11-24
The armed forces of Ecuador say that they will "not allow ongoing protests" to "damage the country's democracy", as road blockades and demonstrations against the economic policies of president Guillermo Lasso continue. 2022-06-21
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
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
Voters in Ecuador return to the polls for the second round of a presidential election, which Lenín Moreno of the socialist PAIS Alliance is predicted to narrowly win over the center-right Creating Opportunities's Guillermo Lasso. With 94.18% of the votes counted, Moreno leads with 51.07%. According to the national election commission, it was a transparent and successful election. 2017-04-2
People in Ecuador start burying their dead as the death toll from the earthquake passes 500. 2016-04-20
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden, says that he will leave his refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London "soon". 2014-08-18
An overcrowded bus plunges into ravine near El Carmen, Ecuador, killing 41. 2010-12-25
Philip Alston expresses concern at the rise in murders in Ecuador and the declining number of murderers being caught. 2010-07-16