The government has blamed previous administrations for failing to invest sufficiently in the energy system. The latest incident comes after days of heavy rains that affected the country’s main hydroelectric plants
Inmates at Guayaquil’s Litoral penitentiary, the country’s most notorious prison, recount the humiliations they have been subjected to since the military took control of the facility
Human rights lawyers wonder who will issue vital documents now that Ecuador has closed its diplomatic missions on Mexican territory in protest over last month’s assault on the embassy in Quito
The company that fed 11,000 inmates has stopped providing services over a $30-million debt with the government, while accusations of torture in jails are on the increase
In an 11-question referendum, the president fared worse on two economic issues, but received backing to allow the Armed Forces to carry out operations with the police without needing to declare a state of emergency
Judges deemed the arrest ordered by President Noboa to be arbitrary, but they also denied a request by Glas’ defense to take him out of La Roca prison and send him back to the diplomatic mission
The former Ecuadorian vice-president, arrested after the police raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, has pursued his career in parallel with the ex-president in foreign exile
Congress is rearming itself around an opposition bloc, arising from its rejection of President Daniel Noboa’s decision to order the raid to detain former vice-president Jorge Glas
Ecuadorian police forces burst into the site with armored cars and arrested former vice president Jorge Glas, who is convicted in two cases of corruption and had been granted political asylum by Mexico. President López Obrador has described the assault as a ‘flagrant violation of international law and sovereignty’
The testimony of a protected witness indicates that the logistics of the murder committed last August in Quito were in the hands of members of the Lobos gang while they languished in Cotopaxi prison
EL PAÍS visited one of the penitentiaries that President Daniel Noboa is trying to control — thus far unsuccessfully — by applying Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s approach
Moscow has partially prohibited imports from Quito under suspicion that the Soviet-origin weapons to be exchanged with Washington for ‘modern’ materiel will end up in Ukraine
Two children were murdered every day in 2023 in Ecuador, which is suffering a wave of violence due to drug trafficking: ‘The state, society, and family, we have all failed them,’ says an expert
About 20 hooded men with masks, weapons and dynamite took over the TC Television studio in the middle of the newscast. The journalists talk to EL PAÍS about the trauma of the assault
Gangs are running profitable businesses inside the correctional facilities, and even have the keys to their own units. Recent rioting showed the extent of their power, posing a difficult challenge for the government of Daniel Noboa