Ever since Ecuador’s most notorious gang leader vanished from his prison cell in January 2024, the mystery of his whereabouts ...

Ecuadoran forces have revealed how they captured the country’s most-wanted man, drug lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías, more than a ...

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa announced after the capture that the Macías would be extradited to the US to face prosecution. He was indicted in New York City in April on charges of importing and ...

Police in Ecuador have recaptured the country’s most wanted fugitive, drug lord Adolfo Macías Villamar. Macías, also known by the alias “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful criminal gang ...

A fugitive drug trafficker wanted by authorities in Ecuador and the United States was recaptured more than a year after he ...

The preservation push in Ecuador comes as another South American country that includes part of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, is moving ahead with plans to further develop oil resources.

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A father accused of murdering his daughter said he cannot remember picking up and shaking her on the night she suffered the injuries leading to her death. Thomas Holford admits the manslaughter of ...

He was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice. Cabrera is accused of stabbing a woman to death on Nov. 24, 2011, in Lujo, Ecuador, about 3,000 miles south of the Connecticut town where he was captured.

New laws passed by Ecuador’s National Assembly and signed by President Daniel Noboa include dangerous provisions that threaten the rights of Ecuadorians.