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Ecuador’s incumbent president and a leftist lawyer again vie for the top job in election runoff
Ecuadorians are voting in the country’s presidential election runoff, facing the choice between incumbent President Daniel ...
Ecuador votes in close presidential race, drug violence top concern
Ecuadoreans were voting on Sunday in what is expected to be a close presidential race between incumbent Daniel Noboa, who ...
Ecuador votes in knife-edge election during wave of violence
Ecuador’s market-friendly President Daniel Noboa faces the protégée of socialist ex-leader Rafael Correa in a run-off ...
How mafias like "Freddy Kruegers" and "Peaky Blinders" terrorize Ecuador through extortion and murder
A flood of cocaine from Colombia and Peru through Ecuadoran ports has created a plethora of mafias with striking names and ...
Ecuador's violence-hit coastal region focus of presidential candidates
The two candidates battling it out to win Ecuador's presidency in this Sunday's run-off have focused their energies on the ...
Resurgent Socialist Seeks to Oust Trump Ally in Ecuador Election
Ecuador’s voters face a stark choice on Sunday as an ally of Donald Trump fights to stay in power against a socialist who ...
Leader of notorious Ecuador drug gang who vanished from prison cell is indicted in U.S.
José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon ...
Ecuador heads to the polls on Sunday, as the country grapples with insecurity, rising homicides and powerful prison mafias
Ecuador heads to the polls on Sunday, as the country grapples with insecurity, rising homicides and powerful prison mafias ...