QUITO (Reuters) - A police and military operation to enter a jail in the southern Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil amid disturbances mobilized more than a thousand personnel, officials said on Saturday.

Ecuadorian prison authorities caught three inmates trying to sneak a cache of weapons and explosives into the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil just a day before 68 prisoners were killed and 25 were ...

A major manhunt continues for Ecuador’s most wanted drug lord who escaped prison during a crimewave that shook the country - with no trace of him since. Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, broke ...

QUITO (Reuters) -United Nations human rights officials are concerned about Ecuador's prison violence crisis, they said on Thursday, after yet another riot at a Guayaquil jail left at least 13 inmates ...