By Mateo Palacios Ecuador has emerged as one of the world's most important logistics hubs for cocaine trafficking, according ...

Ecuador’s president announced unprecedented coca cultivation figures this week, highlighting the country’s role as a fledgling cocaine producer, though uncertainty remains as to the true extent of ...

Daniel Noboa won Ecuador's presidential election on Sunday. Ecuador’s president-elect has presented an ambitious set of security plans to tackle the country’s growing organized crime problem, but ...

Eight bodies have been found in plastic bags in a southwestern narco-trafficking hotspot, where eight people went missing on Sunday, Ecuadoran police said Wednesday. "It has been confirmed that there ...

Ecuadorians will head to the polls on Sunday in a runoff presidential election, choosing between a conservative incumbent or a leftist lawyer as the country struggles with a cocaine-fueled security ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soldiers and an Indigenous family look on during a march against Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa's government on March 13 [Karen ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian officials said Monday that they have deployed 75,000 soldiers and police officers to four crime-ridden provinces where the government is implementing a nightly curfew ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Sunday used his State of the Union address to tout his government's U.S.-backed crime-fighting strategies as well as improvements of some ...

OVER RECENT decades, international integration and new technologies have helped create or expand all manner of markets. Unfortunately, this applies just as much to illicit markets as legitimate ones.

Dr. Freeman is a fellow for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda.