Watch: Armed men interrupt live Ecuador broadcast and threaten staff Since then, soldiers have been deployed to help police quell the violence, which had spread from the country's prisons to the ...

A state of emergency and curfews have been declared in two Ecuador provinces after a series of attacks that killed five police officers. President Guillermo Lasso said the attacks by increasingly ...

More than 50 prison guards and seven police officers ... the country's biggest jails. Ecuador's Interior Minister, Juan Zapata, said the authorities were taking action, but did not give further ...

Ecuador’s youngest ... investigations are underway, police said. In a statement Sunday, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Government called the incident a “criminal action” and referenced a ...

At least 10 people, including both Ecuadorians and Colombians, were killed in a violent armed attack early Sunday in El Guabo, a town located in the ...

Ecuador, Nov. 1, 2022. [Courtesy, VOA] At least five Ecuadorean police officers were killed on Tuesday in explosive attacks in response to prisoner transfers from overcrowded and violent ...

QUITO, Ecuador — (AP ... In a statement, prison officials said that police and military had been deployed to take control of the facility. Local media reported helicopters could be seen ...

“All those who allowed this to happen, by action or omission ... which included the post of deputy police attaché at the Embassy of Ecuador in Colombia and of a professor and police instructor.

“It is the first time in the history of Mexican diplomacy that a Mexican Embassy has been violated from the police point ... serious that Ecuador has taken this action which, truly, has no ...