Ecuadorian gangs are creeping into Peru, drawn by drug trafficking and illegal mining profits, and pushed by a security ...

The leader of an indigenous community in Peru asked for the government to declare a state of emergency on Monday and accused ...

Thousands of tons are extracted every month, a large part, from the international waters located off the seas of Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The main player behind that voracious appetite is China ...

The government of Ecuador has taken another step in its effort to gain help from foreign military forces to combat drug ...

Ecuador is home to an estimated 20 criminal ... million that is squeezed between the world's biggest cocaine producers, Peru and Colombia. In recent years, the nation has been plunged into ...

Polls opened Sunday across Ecuador in a presidential election amid a rise in cartel turf wars and soaring murder rates. The frontrunners include the incumbent, a conservative young millionaire, ...

Ecuador’s presidential election is shaping up to be a repeat ... American country is tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru. So many voters have become crime ...

Some 14 million Ecuadorans began voting under tight security Sunday, choosing who will lead their violence-wracked Andean nation through its worst crisis in half a century.