The leader of one of Ecuador's biggest drug-trafficking gangs has been captured in an operation involving Spanish police, Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa has said. Wilmer "Pipo" Chavarria, the head ...

Ecuador, Spanish police arrest Los Lobos drug boss Wilmer Barre, tied to 400 murders Wilmer Geovanny Chavarria Barre, known as "Pipo," helms a powerful group that the US in September designated a ...

Two candidates are vying for the presidency in Ecuador's elections this weekend, amid rising violence, turf battles by drug cartels and gangs — and more reports of extortion, kidnappings and worse.

MADRIDMADRID — Spanish customs agents and National Police said Friday they confiscated the country’s biggest cocaine haul to date of 9.5 tons hidden in a banana freight container originating from ...

On Sunday Ecuador holds the first round of a Presidential election dominated by the issues of economic insecurity and rising drug gang violence. One of South America's most troubled country is ...

Spanish authorities have made a record cocaine seizure after intercepting 13 tonnes of the drug hidden in a cargo container of bananas shipped from Ecuador to southern Spain. The bust was the second ...

The two candidates vying for Ecuador’s presidency in a second-round run-off never campaigned in Cochapamba. Their faces are nowhere to be seen in this remote Indigenous community in the Ecuadorian ...

Spain is following with "concern" the crisis in Ecuador, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Wednesday, a day after the Latin American country exploded in what President Daniel Noboa called an ...

Ecuador has arrested the leader of one of the country's biggest drug trafficking gangs, Los Lobos, in an operation with Spanish police, President Daniel Noboa said on Sunday. Wilmer Geovanny Chavarria ...

Spanish customs agents have confiscated the country's biggest cocaine haul to date - after finding 9.5 tons hidden in banana boxes originating from Ecuador. The prolific amount of the drug was found ...