Sources: El Universal
Seven people are killed in a shooting by criminal gangs at a pool hall in Santo Domingo, Ecuador, less than a month after a similar attack at a different pool hall in the city which also killed seven people. 2025-09-13
Ecuador extradites José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros cartel, to the United States where he faces federal charges related to drug trafficking. 2025-07-20
Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas requests asylum in Mexico. 2023-12-22
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
Explosive devices disguised as USB flash drives are sent to least five news organizations in Ecuador; one journalist at Ecuavisa in Guayaquil suffers minor injuries. 2023-03-20
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Ecuador, near the border with Peru. It is relatively deep, with a depth of 152 km. 2019-02-22
All four Ecuadorean miners trapped underground since a mine collapse have been found dead. 2010-10-20
A state of emergency in place in Ecuador after the 2010 Ecuador crisis is extended to Friday. 2010-10-5
President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos, in his inauguration speech, vows to improve relations with Ecuador and Venezuela. 2010-08-7