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

We do evil': How rival gangs with 'Pablo Escobar complex' gave kill orders over the phone and spent thousands smuggling weapons into jail for Ecuador ... emergency in the prison system following ...

William Alcívar Bautista, alias “Willy," was arrested in Spain with his brother Álex, alias “Ronco,” the gang's ...

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

QUITO (Reuters) - A criminal prosecutor in Ecuador was killed by armed assailants on Friday along with his police escort, in the latest eruption of violent crime to shake the South American nation.

The attorney general's office began investigating officials in Ecuador's judicial system after Leandro Norero - who authorities linked to drug trafficking gangs - was killed in prison in 2022 ...

Ecuador’s ex-comptroller Carlos Ramon Polit ... who were convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison for laundering more than $100 million in bribery payments to Miami and Switzerland.

(MENAFN- The Rio Times) President Daniel Noboa of Ecuador has launched an ambitious project to build a high-security prison in Santa Elena province. The "El Encuentro Prison" aims to isolate ...

Glas, also convicted of corruption, was jailed in Ecuador. He attempted suicide earlier this year and went on a hunger strike in a prison to protest his arrest, according to his lawyer.