Bathers found the body parts in Puerto López, a town which has been wracked by gang violence.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ever since Ecuador's most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, authorities have been searching the world, offering a $1 million reward for ...

Five severed human heads were found hanging from ropes on a beach in southwestern Ecuador Sunday in a gruesome display linked to ongoing gang violence sweeping across the country, according to reports ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the United States is ready to “blow up” foreign criminal groups if necessary, in cooperation with allied governments. Speaking during a visit to Ecuador, Rubio ...

José Adolfo Macías, known as Fito, escaped twice before authorities in the South American country apprehended him. He appeared in a music video from prison. By Santul Nerkar Ecuador’s most powerful ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador on Sunday extradited to the United States the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business. José Adolfo Macías Villamar ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he escaped from prison in the Andean nation, Ecuadorian ...

The leader of one of Ecuador's biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been captured in an operation involving Spanish police, according to Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa. Wilmer "Pipo" Chavarria was the ...