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- Ecuador spends $1.5 billion annually on organised crime fighting, Noboa claims
- Ecuador requests extradition of Xavier Jordán, charged in Villavicencio case, within 15 days
- Young man killed in Los Claveles after thwarting robbery in south Guayaquil
- Fake police kill 26-year-old man in Machala with stolen patrol vehicle
- 16-year-old student brought homemade weapon to school in northern Guayaquil
- Young man shot dead in park in south Guayaquil; families fear for their safety
- 16-year-old student arrested with improvised weapon at Guayaquil school
- Curfew imposed in four Ecuadorian provinces: third decree in 2026 amid organised crime
- Ecuador spends $1.5 billion annually on organised crime fighting, says Noboa
- Curfew in Ecuador: 1,283 detained and only one target criminal captured
- Curfew in Ecuador: temporary measure without sustained impact on homicides
- Operation Shadow in Ecuador: 14 Los Lobos Box members detained in El Oro
- Student shot with firearm at school in northern Guayaquil during break
- Operation Shadow: 14 arrested members of Los Lobos Box gang during curfew in El Oro
- Ecuador spends $1.5 billion annually fighting organised crime
- Ecuador spends 1.5 billion dollars annually combating organised crime
- Sergeant Patricio Ortiz dies following armed attack at Sergio Toral cooperative, Guayaquil
- Student wounded by gunshot inside school in Guayaquil: weapon found in bathrooms
- Doctor and ambulance driver murdered on Canoa-Jama road, Manabí
- 31-year-old man shot dead in Sauces 8, northern Guayaquil
- US bars seven former Ecuadorian officials over links to CJNG and Sinaloa Cartel
- Eleven detained in preventive custody following armed attack on police in Monte Sinaí
- Large-scale police operation with helicopter and drones across six districts of Guayaquil
- Stepfather detained for assaulting nine-year-old girl in Guasmo Sur, Guayaquil
- Noboa on assault of nine-year-old girl in Guayaquil: "No coward will go unpunished"
- Man arrested in Guayaquil for attacking 9-year-old girl in Guasmo Sur
- Stepfather arrested on suspicion of assaulting child in Guasmo Sur, Guayaquil
- Stepfather arrested in Guasmo Sur following viral videos of assault on nine-year-old girl
- Man arrested in Guayaquil for attacking 9-year-old girl following viral videos of violence
- Police pursuit in northern Guayaquil leaves one dead and four arrested
- Stepfather arrested in Guayaquil after viral video of assault on 9-year-old girl
- Two suspects sought in attack on shot police officer in Monte Sinaí, Guayaquil
- Four arrested over extortion of up to $20,000 from traders in Guayaquil
- Reward scheme activated following police officer attack in Monte Sinaí, Guayaquil
- Sergeant shot in the head during pursuit in Monte Sinaí, Guayaquil
- Gang of robbers arrested after chase in north of Guayaquil; one dead
- Sergeant wounded in armed attack in north-west Guayaquil remains in intensive care
- Two sisters arrested for cosmetics store fraud with false transfers in Santo Domingo
- Operation Apollo 30: 27 arrested in Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón in 40 raids
- Rubio in Ecuador: Los Tiguerones designated terrorist organisation, sanctions against former officials
- Two tonnes of cocaine seized in fruit container in Machala
- Joint US-Ecuador military operations against drug cartels in Esmeraldas
- Four Ecuadorian vessels sunk by US Navy over drug trafficking
- Police seize arsenal with hundreds of cartridges in Urdesa home, Guayaquil
- 29 detained, over USD 1 million and aircraft seized in operations in Guayas
- United States Navy sinks Los Choneros drug-smuggling vessel in Ecuadorian waters
- Weapon found in rucksack of 18-year-old student at Guayaquil school
- Lenín Moreno sentenced to five years in prison for bribes in Sinohydro case
- Ecuadorian former president Lenín Moreno found guilty of corruption
- Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno convicted of bribery in favour of Chinese company
- Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno found guilty of corruption and bribery
- Ex-President Moreno sentenced to five years in prison for corruption
- Drug-trafficking vessel intercepted and sunk by USA and Ecuador in Pacific
- Former president Lenín Moreno found guilty of corruption in Ecuador
- Student arrested for carrying firearm at state school in Guayaquil
- Noboa estimates 80,000 armed persons in Ecuador's criminal groups
- José Serrano, former Correa minister, accused of being intellectual author of Villavicencio's murder
- Eleven dead in multiple attacks in Guayaquil in 24 hours; teenager among the injured
- Ecuador approves extradition to US of suspect in assassination of presidential candidate
- Wave of violence in Guayaquil, Machala and Arenillas: family and police officer gunned down