FILE - In this April 14, 2020 file photo, a family waits outside their home to receive food handouts from the local government, in the Cristo del Consuelo neighborhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In March ...

Cuenca, Ecuador tops a new ranking of affordable expat-friendly cities, where year-round spring weather meets ultra-low ...

Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths in Ecuador's second city Guayaquil have led to a shortage of coffins, forcing locals to resort to using cardboard boxes, city authorities said Sunday. Authorities in ...

Soldiers have taken over street corners in poor neighborhoods. The mayor is answering to an emergency committee run by the army. Hundreds of curfew violators have been detained. Nowhere has the ...

Four months after Ecuador’s port city of Guayaquil was ravaged by the coronavirus, the rest of the nation is faring nearly as poorly. Although you wouldn’t know it from the official figures. The ...

Corpses remain in family homes and on the street in Guayaquil, Ecuador, as authorities are overburdened with a collection of the bodies of dead, several news agencies reported. The city is the ...

It’s the year 2043 and this burgeoning city of 100,000 is a high-tech Mecca. Using rare plants from the Amazon, university researchers have cured many diseases; factories churn out nano-sponges that ...

URCUQUI, Ecuador — It’s the year 2043 and this burgeoning city of 100,000 is a high-tech Mecca. Using rare plants from the Amazon, university researchers have cured many diseases; factories churn out ...

Ecuadorians will vote Sunday on whether to reverse a constitutional ban and allow foreign military bases back in the country, as part of the fight against drug trafficking.

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadoreans grappling with a surge in violent crime will head to the polls on Sunday to decide whether to allow the return of foreign military bases — which ...

This Sunday, Ecuadorans will vote on whether to allow foreign military bases to return to the country. About 61 percent of Ecuadorans plan to vote in favor of repealing a ban on foreign bases, ...