At least 17 people have been killed in a prison riot in Ecuador, the second deadly prison brawl to hit the country this week.

A pregnant woman drowned after the smuggler instructed her to wade across the Great Chazy River in December 2023, prosecutors ...

Two explosions have rocked different parts of Ecuador, just hours after a vehicle exploded in a port city, killing one person ...

whose overcrowded and violent prisons have become hubs for organized crime groups. In that incident, prisoners used guns and explosives and an unknown number escaped. Some were recaptured. Nestled ...

Interior Minister John Reimberg accused Ecuadorian gang Los Lobos, which is designated as a “foreign terrorist organisation” ...

A Colombian court on Tuesday held seven leaders of the defunct Colombian guerrilla army FARC responsible for the kidnappings ...

Dozens of foreign nationals are locked up in Venezuelan prisons, accused of crimes they may not have committed. As the U.S.

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has indicated there are "signs" that a recent U.S. military boat attack off Venezuela ...