the former president was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for aggravated bribery, a charge he has repeatedly denied. Noboa’s first term has seen widespread blackouts in Ecuador ...

He has declared numerous states of emergency, deployed military units to tackle gang activity in the country’s streets, and began construction on a new maximum-security prison after an infamous ...

Ecuador will apply a 27% tariff on Mexican goods to “ensure fair treatment” of Ecuadorian producers, President Daniel Noboa said on Monday. In a post on X, Noboa said he is open to signing a ...

By Genevieve Glatsky Reporting from Quito, Ecuador Ecuador’s young president ... Last year, after prison riots broke out and gunmen seized a TV station, Mr. Noboa declared a state of internal ...

Supporters holding cardboard cutouts of President Daniel Noboa during a campaign event on Wednesday in Quito, Ecuador.Credit ... armed conflict after several prison riots and an on-air siege ...

Difference of 1% between Noboa, Gonzalez Incumbent Noboa had been predicted to win Gonzalez had decried possibility of fraud QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Feb 9 (Reuters ... and in prisons, among other ...

In a darkened military command center near the Peruvian border, eight Ecuadoran marines armed with rusting M4 rifles prepare ...

During his 2023 campaign, Ecuador’s Daniel Noboa, today the country’s president, promised to build two new maximum-security prisons as a way to tackle rising violence and gang-controlled prisons.

during which Ecuadorians will be subject to curfews while armed forces try to restore order in the streets and the country’s gang-controlled prisons. Ecuador: Victim of geography To understand ...