IN FOCUS Drugs, crime and protests: Ecuador stares into the abyss 25-10-2021 12:44 Emboldened drug traffickers, hundreds of deaths in prisons, a government dogged by scandal, and an economy ravaged by Covid have Ecuador staring into the abyss.
Latin America's jails More than 100 dead in Ecuador's latest prison violence 30-09-2021 15:55 The death toll from bloody clashes between rival gangs in an Ecuador prison reached 116, with nearly 80 more wounded, President Guillermo Lasso said Wednesday.
Human rights Regional human rights body slams Ecuador over prison deaths 23-08-2021 20:39 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns violence in Ecuadorean prisons that has left 121 inmates dead this year.