Ecuador's conservative millionaire incumbent handily won Sunday's presidential run off against a leftist challenger.

Voters are in a standoff over which candidate can better address persistent violence linked to drug trafficking.

In a divisive election season, Daniel Noboa pledged to bring law and order. His opponent immediately contested the results.

Ecuadorians head to the polls this Sunday, in one of the most hotly contested elections in decades. Thirty-seven-year-old ...

Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s conservative president, trounced his left-wing opponent, Luisa González, to win a second term. A ...

Ecuador re-elected President Daniel Noboa to a four-year term. What to know about the pro-President Donald Trump conservative taking on cartel violence.

José Adolfo Macías Villamar — known as "Fito" — has led Los Choneros and its "network of assassins and drug and weapon ...

Ecuador started 2025 with its bloodiest beginning ... and inmates rioted in prisons. Seven men held as suspects in Villavicencio’s slaying were killed inside prisons. The Associated Press ...

Noboa, the 37-year-old son of one of Ecuador's richest men, has employed an iron fist approach to the violence, declaring a state of emergency and deploying the military. This victory now means he ...

A recent report by respected NGO Crisis Group found that the livelihoods of many ordinary families in poor areas of Ecuador now depend on the drug business, with men selling cocaine while women ...