The mayor of an Ecuadorian seaside town has been assassinated as crime in the South American country continues to spiral out of control. Agustin Intriago, the 38-year-old mayor of the Pacific coast ...

In the mid 20th Century, Ecuadorian historian Jacinto Jijon Y Caamano set out to investigate the remains of a suspected pre-Columbian settlement close to the town of Manta, on Ecuador's Pacific ...

QUITO, Ecuador — The mayor of the Ecuadorian Pacific port city of Manta, Agustín Intriago, was shot dead on Sunday, authorities said, in a brazen attack that stunned the political establishment.

A recent wave of violence against traffic authorities in Ecuador exposes the importance of these entities for criminal groups looking to deepen their control over the country’s streets. In the early ...

QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso on Monday declared a state of emergency and night curfews in three coastal provinces, amid a wave of violence over the weekend in the Andean ...

MANTA, Ecuador—Bobbi de Winter had found her retirement paradise on this country’s coast, where tiny red crabs scuttle across pristine beaches, giant sea turtles lay their eggs and whales breach the ...

Reporting from Guayaquil, Ecuador — As rescue teams continued to work against the clock to pull survivors from the ruins left by last weekend’s catastrophic earthquake, the government began to ...

A referendum on whether to allow the return of foreign military bases to Ecuador is failing, with more than 60% of the votes counted.Ecuador' s voters have seemly rejected a proposal to allow the ...

Scientists have identified off the coast of Ecuador a distinct population of oceanic manta rays that is more than 10 times larger than any other known subpopulation of the species. The findings, just ...