marred by violence and the assassination of a candidate. Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil - home to the country's biggest port and prison complex - has traditionally been the epicentre of ...

Video: Ecuador 'civil war' crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with ...

Security forces in Ecuador have launched an operation in a major prison complex in the port ... winning an election tarnished by the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

in which they expressed their concern about the situation in the prison system. “We express our deep concern for the situation in the Penitentiary System in the State of Ecuador, as well as the ...

Associated Press Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 1:36 p.m. | Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021 1:36 p.m. A prolonged gun battle between rival gangs inside Ecuador’s largest prison early Saturday left at least 68 ...

Bolívar Garzón, head of Ecuador's Prison Department, Friday explained the measure was being eyed for the elderly, the disabled and the terminally ill. The country's prisons currently house some ...

A new bloodbath was taken in one of Ecuador's prisons. The early morning of last Sunday, the No. 1 Deprivation of Liberty Center, known as Turi Prison, was the epicenter of shooting, killing and ...