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A Mw 6.3 earthquake strikes Esmeraldas, Ecuador, shutting down power, damaging 800 buildings and injuring 32 people.
2025-04-25

Citizens of Ecuador vote to elect a president and the members of the National Assembly amidst the country's security crisis. With around 44% of the popular vote each in the presidential race, incumbent Daniel Noboa and challenger Luisa González will compete in a run-off vote on 13 April.
2025-02-9

Seventeen people are killed and 15 more injured after a prison riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2024-11-12

Forty-three prisoners are at large after escaping a prison in Esmeraldas, Ecuador.
2024-01-15

The Ecuadorian government extends the country's state of emergency by a month.
2023-10-8

Eight people are killed and others are injured in a shootout outside a nightclub in La Concordia, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Ecuador.
2023-06-25

Ten people are killed after a prison riot breaks out near Quito, Ecuador.
2022-11-18

Fifteen people are killed and 21 others injured when a prison riot open fire in a mass shooting in Latacunga, Cotopaxi Province, Ecuador.
2022-10-3

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