Sources: El Universal
Eight people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a nightclub in Santa Lucía Canton, Guayas Province, Ecuador. 2025-08-10
Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas requests asylum in Mexico. 2023-12-22
Ecuador leaves the Bolivarian alliance of nations run in Latin America, citing the behaviour of the Venezuelan government in several areas including attempting to impose Chavism in America, creating major crises, and ineffectual control of migration. 2018-08-23
13 police officers are injured after an attack against a police command in San Lorenzo Canton, Ecuador.2018-01-27
The National Liberation Army releases former congressman Odin Sanchez, who had been held hostage by the rebel group since April 2016, paving the way for peace talks to begin between the rebels and the Colombian government next week in Ecuador. 2017-02-2
Indigenous protesters commence a cross-country march in Ecuador against mining concessions. 2012-03-9
Ecuador recognises Palestine as an independent state within its 1967 borders. 2010-12-25
An Ecuadorean court orders the imprisonment of 12 police after last week's 2010 Ecuador crisis, with a lawyer saying they are being swept up in a "witch hunt". 2010-10-9
A state of emergency is declared in Ecuador after troops storm the international airport and police storm the Congress, in which the government declared was an attempted coup d'état. 2010-09-30
New Zealand's Chatham Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii and Ecuador's Galápagos Islands are among the other world areas struck by the resulting tsunami as the "biggest tsunami warning in history" gets underway. 2010-02-27