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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

A seventh individual, linked to the August assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, dies in a prison in Quito, following the deaths of six others during riots at a prison in Guayaquil.
2023-10-7

Fifty-seven police and prison officers are taken hostage in six different prisons in Quito as explosive attacks occur in Ecuador's capital targeting the country's prison authority.
2023-08-31

Ecuador transfers head of the Los Choneros criminal group, Jose Adolfo Macias, from Prison 8 in Guayaquil to La Roca maximum security prison. He is accused of threatening presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio before his assassination.
2023-08-12

Six people are killed and eight others injured in a shootout between rival gangs on a street in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2023-06-19

Twelve people are killed after riots break out in a prison in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
2023-04-14

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

Twenty-four people are killed and 42 others are wounded during a battle between rival gangs at a prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Some of the inmates were armed with guns and grenades.
2021-09-28

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off the coast of Ecuador, near the town of Muisne. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami alert for coastal areas of Ecuador and Colombia. At least 42 people are reported dead with deaths reported in the cities of Manta, Guayaquil and Portoviejo.
2016-04-16