Rafael Correa

Mexico said it has cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police stormed the country's embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former Ecuadoran vice president Jorge Glas who was taking refuge there.

Leftist frontrunner Luisa Gonzalez looked set to take on a surprise candidate, the youthful son of one of Ecuador's richest men, in a run-off election in October, official results showed Sunday.

Gonzalez, a lawyer close to divisive former socialist president Rafael Correa, was leading with 33 percent of the vote, as 80 percent of the vote was counted.

Puigdemont is on a wanted warrant in Spain for holding a referendum on Catalonia's independence two years ago.
The protests against that referendum came not only from Madrid but also from Brussels.

Five civilians, including an indigenous driver, have died in protests over rising gas prices in Ecuador, France Press reported.

US linguist Noam Chomsky believes that the US military strategy under US President Donald Trump is moving toward world destruction.

Ecuador's new president Lenin Moreno warned Julian Assange on May 25 not to interfere in the politics of the South American country, whose embassy the WikiLeaks founder has lived in for the past five years.

Socialist Lenin Boltaire Moreno was set to extend a decade of leftist rule in Ecuador on April 3 after official results showed him winning the presidential election, as his conservative rival cried foul.

QUITO, Ecuador - After several days of suspense, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Ecuador announced that Lenín Moreno of Rafael Correa's left-wing Alianza PAIS coalition failed to win the presidential election outright in the first round by the narrowest of margins and will face Guillermo Lasso in the runoff vote on April 2.

Ecuador will hold a run-off presidential election in April after a hard fought and inconclusive first round, the electoral commission said Feb. 22.

The voting is being watched closely to see if oil-producing Ecuador will become the latest leftist-run country in Latin America to shift to the right.

QUITO, Ecuador - Just days before Sunday's presidential election, Lenín Moreno of the outgoing leader Rafael Correa's left-wing Alianza PAIS coalition is leading in the polls but is unlikely to win outright in the first round.