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The toll from yesterday's bus crash in Simiatug, Tungurahua Province, Ecuador, increases to 21 people killed and 40 others injured.
2025-11-17

A court in Quito, Ecuador, sentences three people to 12 years in prison and two people to over 34 years in prison for the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio. At least two of the five are allegedly part of the Los Lobos criminal organization.
2024-07-12

Four people are killed after a boat sinks in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador.
2022-09-26

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

Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno declares a state of emergency amid nationwide protests against a hike in fuel prices. The protests have crippled the country's transport network with all major roads and bridges blocked in the capital Quito.
2019-10-4

Pope Francis begans his tri-nation visit to Latin America arriving in Ecuador. Next he travels to Bolivia from July 8–10 and Paraguay from July 10–12, and returning to Rome on July 13.
2015-07-5

Mountaineers claim to have found in the Andes the wreckage of LAN Chile Flight 210 that disappeared in August 1961 killing 24 people on board including eight members and two coaches of the Club de Deportes Green Cross football team.
2015-02-9

Ecuador announces the discovery of a bugging device used to listen in on its embassy in the United Kingdom. Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patiño declares it as "another instance of a loss of ethics at the international level in relations between governments".
2013-07-3

Ecuador recognises Palestine as an independent state within its 1967 borders.
2010-12-25

46 police officers in Ecuador are arrested on suspicion of involvement in last week's uprising.
2010-10-6