Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Ecuador’s Military Detained an 11-Year-Old Boy. Then He Was Found Dead.

Facing surging gang violence & drug-linked crime, Ecuador’s government launched a military crackdown that critics allege has ‘disappeared’ innocents, including 11-year-old Steven Gerald Medina Lajones ...

Ecuador's crackdown on gangs fractures criminal networks and fuels bloodshed

The death toll of the March shoot-out in several houses in Nueva Prosperina, one of Guayaquil's most violent neighborhoods, was 22. Police say the bloodshed was the local result of a national ...
KBIA

The U.S. is designating Ecuador's largest gangs as terrorists

QUITO, Ecuador — The United States will designate two of Ecuador's most powerful gangs — Los Lobos and Los Choneros — as foreign terrorist organizations, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Ecuador in Transition: Marcel Mettelsiefen on Documenting a Nation in Crisis

Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen talks about making the documentary ‘Drug War in Ecuador,’ an on-the-ground look at the country’s ongoing crisis.