Every year, Ecuador's 'Diablada' festival fills 12 blocks of this town 60 miles south of Quito and ends on Three Kings Day, the Roman Catholic holiday celebrated on Jan. 6 Every year, Ecuador's ...

Residents of a town in western Ecuador elected a man as their new mayor on Sunday just hours after he was assassinated. Mayoral candidate Omar Menendez took more than 46% of the vote in Sunday's ...

QUITO, Ecuador – Indigenous protesters wielding spears in southeastern Ecuador sent police and soldiers fleeing Wednesday in a clash that Interior Minister Jose Serrano said injured eight security ...

Photographers and storytellers Karla Gachet and Ivan Kashinsky document cumbia music in Colombia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, ...

Pedernales, Ecuador – The citizens of Pedernales are used to living with tectonic activity, minor tremors rattling their homes from time to time. With a population of around 50,000 people, the small ...

SALCEDO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ice-cream production in Salcedo, a quaint town in Ecuador's central highlands, began in the mid-20th century, born from the ingenuity of Franciscan nuns. Locals say the ...

Quito (AFP) – Gunmen in Ecuador opened fire in a restaurant in a beach town popular with tourists, killing at least six people and wounding six more, prosecutors said Sunday. The attack happened ...

David Greene talks to Julia Symmes Cobb of The Washington Post, about conditions in Ecuador's earthquake zone and relief efforts there. The government says the death toll is expected to rise. We do ...

On 30 September, hundreds of Indigenous people formed a long procession through the small Andean town of Quiroga, Ecuador.