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A Miami man pleaded guilty Tuesday for his role in a $16 million international bribery and money laundering scheme.

A fight among inmates has left more than a dozen people dead and more injured at Ecuador’s largest prison, authorities said ...

Authorities say the number of inmates killed in a riot in Ecuador’s largest and most dangerous prison has risen to 17, a day after the goriest prison episode under the watch of President Daniel Noboa ...

Indigenous environmental defenders in Ecuador are suffering an increasing number of threats and sometimes deadly attacks amid ...

Ecuador's youngest mayor and another occupant ... in a move to curb the spiraling violence following jailbreaks and rioting by organized crime groups. In declaring the ”internal armed conflict ...

At least 15 inmates were killed and 14 injured in clashes Tuesday at a prison in the Ecuadoran port of Guayaquil, the latest ...

Across Ecuador, gangs have unleashed a wave of violence and extortion, upending lives and spurring an unprecedented exodus.

Increased violence highlights how Costa Rica is feeling the tightening grip of cocaine trafficking. But is the nation on a ...

The figure is the first official estimate of coca crop cultivation in Ecuador. Reports by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) had previously monitored illicit crops in the country, ...