FILE - In this April 14, 2020 file photo, a family waits outside their home to receive food handouts from the local government, in the Cristo del Consuelo neighborhood of Guayaquil, Ecuador. In March ...

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The mayor of Ecuador's third largest city was slain Sunday in a shooting that killed one other person and wounded four more, including two suspected attackers, officials said.

Soaring numbers of COVID-19 deaths in Ecuador's second city Guayaquil have led to a shortage of coffins, forcing locals to resort to using cardboard boxes, city authorities said Sunday. Authorities in ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador/QUITO, March 19 (Reuters) - The mayor of Ecuador's second-largest city said the municipality had blocked the landing of a plane sent from Europe to pick up passengers stranded in ...

Soldiers have taken over street corners in poor neighborhoods. The mayor is answering to an emergency committee run by the army. Hundreds of curfew violators have been detained. Nowhere has the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ecuador’s biggest city, ...