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Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-03-31

Public prosecutor César Suárez (Ecuadorian prosecutor) Suárez Suárez, who was investigating the takeover of the TC Televisión newsroom by armed men, is killed in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-01-17

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

Four mountain climbers are killed by an avalanche on the Chimborazo volcano in the Andes in Ecuador.
2021-10-24

A judge in Ecuador rules against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who had contested new rules imposed on him in the country's embassy in London. Assange had argued that the conditions violated his "fundamental rights and freedoms", and were intended to force him to leave. His lawyers have appealed against the ruling. Assange took refuge in the embassy six years ago to avoid extradition to Sweden in a sexual assault case that has since been dropped.
2018-10-30

Colombia announces that it will host a summit in Bogotá with migration officials from Peru and Ecuador in an attempt to seek a solution for the growing illegal immigration of Venezuelans through their nations.
2018-08-23

At least eight children have died in the past few weeks in Ecuador's Amazon basin after being bitten by rabid bats.
2011-12-3

At least 38 people, including the driver, are killed in Ecuador when a bus falls down a cliff outside the capital Quito, reportedly after the driver fell asleep.
2010-08-29

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee removes Ecuador's Galápagos Islands from its list of endangered World Heritage Sites.
2010-07-29