Ecuador youth choosing gangs as route out of poverty, UN expert says
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Poor young Ecuadoreans are choosing to join criminal gangs as an easy way to escape poverty due to a lack of opportunity, according to…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Poor young Ecuadoreans are choosing to join criminal gangs as an easy way to escape poverty due to a lack of opportunity, according to…
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean presidential front-runner Luisa Gonzalez said on Friday she will wear a bulletproof vest while campaigning, following threats against her life and the gunning down of another…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government on Tuesday said it will extend its contract with Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil for a mobile phone concession until a new…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – A local organizer in Ecuador’s Esmeraldas province for the political movement founded by ex-President Rafael Correa, was assassinated on Monday, party leaders said, less…
By Alexandra Valencia and Tito Correa QUITO (Reuters) – The murder of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has made some voters more wary of going to the polls on Aug.…
(Reuters) – Ecuador was reeling on Thursday from the slaying of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio the night before, less than two weeks before elections were to take place. The killing…
QUITO (Reuters) -At least six inmates were killed and 11 more were injured in weekend clashes between gang members in an Ecuadorian prison, authorities said on Sunday during the latest…
By Yury Garcia and Alexandra Valencia GUAYAQUIL/QUITO (Reuters) – Violence is rising sharply in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, as criminal groups brawl to control transport of drugs despite increased seizures,…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Ecuador signed a free trade agreement on May 11, China’s commerce ministry said on Thursday. The two sides will create a more favourable, transparent and…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – The oversight committee of Ecuador’s National Assembly will debate a draft report that concludes President Guillermo Lasso did not participate in embezzlement and recommends…
(Reuters) -An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor’s office of Ecuador and police reported on Sunday. Three people were wounded,…
QUITO (Reuters) – At least 12 inmates were killed in an Ecuadorian jail amid a new clash between gangs, the SNAI prison agency said on Saturday, in the latest chapter…
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s central bank on Friday cut the Andean country’s economic growth forecast for the year to 2.6%, from 3.1%, citing the impact of reduced oil exports, and…
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador’s opposition has compelling evidence to present against President Guillermo Lasso at his impeachment hearing, a lawmaker said on Thursday, including irregularities in a crude oil shipping contract,…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s national assembly on Tuesday voted to declassify documents tied to investigations into allegations of corruption at public companies, in a bid to shore…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – A major Ecuadorean Indigenous organization said on Friday it will not continue talks with the government of President Guillermo Lasso, saying the government has…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Hugo Aguiar, general manager of Ecuadorean state-run oil company Petroecuador, resigned after his home was among locations searched by the attorney general’s office in a…
QUITO (Reuters) – One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers, accused of having close ties with Mexican drug cartels, was captured in a Colombian city close to the border between…
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador will lower taxes on capital sent abroad and items like alcohol and trim overall value-added tax on specific shopping days this year, President Guillermo Lasso said…
GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) – Insecurity in Ecuador is hurting the Andean country’s exports of products like bananas and shrimp, an exporters association said, amid assaults on shipping containers and contamination of…
GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) – Ecuador has fully financed its budget for next year and is not looking for a new credit agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country’s economy…
By Andrew Cawthorne AL KHOR, Qatar (Reuters) -Ecuador eased past World Cup debutants Qatar 2-0 on Sunday with first-half goals from veteran striker Enner Valencia in a one-sided affair that…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government is exploring a possible new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of its 2023 financing plans, which could also…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and Ecuador have agreed to establish a fair trade working group and explore potential negotiations on labor, environment, and digital trade, U.S. Trade Representative…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador’s prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left…