Sources: Reuters
At least one person is killed and several others are injured in a car bomb explosion near a shopping mall in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2025-10-14
An Ecuadorian judge issues arrest warrants for 16 soldiers accused of the disappearance and murder of four children in Guayaquil after genetic tests confirm the charred remains found near a military base belong to the missing victims. 2024-12-31
Maria Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador and the site of the country's deadliest prison riot in 2021, is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug cartel gunmen. 2024-09-13
Six people are killed and eight others injured in a shootout between rival gangs on a street in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador. 2023-06-19
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
Sixty-eight inmates are killed and 25 others injured in a prison riot in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 2021-11-13
The death toll from yesterday's riot between rival gangs at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, increases to 116, making the incident the deadliest prison riot in the country's history. 2021-09-29
Ecuador's health regulatory authority Arcsa approves the usage of the CanSino Convidecia vaccine. 2021-06-15
The Mayor of Guayaquil, Cynthia Viteri, herself infected with COVID-19, condemns the federal government's response to the pandemic as the virus rapidly spreads inside the city. A joint military and police task force has collected at least 150 bodies off the streets. The government's spokesman Jorge Wated apologizes in a message broadcast on state television. 2020-04-2
At least 17 are killed and 12 others are injured in a fire at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Officials said the blaze took hold after patients set mattresses on fire in a bid to escape the facility. 2019-01-12