A Catholic priest died Saturday when a wooden crucifix fell from a wall and crushed him against the pulpit during a livestreamed Mass in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil. Rev. Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari died Saturday, the Archdiocese of Guayaquil announced. “Father, Father! Call an ambulance!” people at Our Lady of Perpetual Help church could […]
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U.S. troops helped Ecuador dismantle a local branch of Mexico’s notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), arresting more than 30 members, Ecuador’s interior minister said Thursday. Quito, a Washington ally, is enthusiastically cooperating with President Trump’s crackdown on organized crime across Latin America. Thursday’s early-morning operation “was conducted jointly with U.S. troops and the Drug […]
Norway’s soccer star Erling Haaland’s face has appeared on billboards, trading cards and television screens, becoming a social media phenomenon for scoring seven goals across four World Cup matches in July. Now, police in Ecuador have found it in an unexpected place — printed on green rectangular packages that made up a stunning cocaine shipment […]
Seven charred bodies have been found in a house in southern Ecuador, authorities said, an area of the country under a state of emergency due to rising violence. Ecuador has gone from being one of South America’s safest countries to a cocaine trafficking hub in a few short years, plagued by gangs with ties to […]