Created after the dissolution of Gran Colombia, Simon Bolivar’s great South American nation, Ecuador gained its independence in 1830. Before Spanish colonization it was a part of Inca Empire. Today, ...

What is now Ecuador formed part of the northern Inca Empire until the Spanish conquest in 1533. Quito became a seat of Spanish colonial government in 1563 and part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in ...

Ecuador is a patchwork of ethnic identities, a complex legacy of its indigenous and colonial past. Long the heartland of a series of native Andean civilisations, it was taken over by the Peru-centred ...

ELECTIONS: Sunday's vote was to choose a successor to President Gustavo Noboa, who was promoted from vice president by Congress after young military officers toppled former President Jamil Mahuad in a ...

BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday left Beijing for a state visit to Ecuador at the invitation of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa. Xi will be the first Chinese President to visit ...

(Reuters) - Ecuadoreans go to the polls on Sunday to choose 130 members of a legislative assembly that will overhaul the country's constitution. The more than 3,000 candidates include a film director, ...

QUITO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - President Rafael Correa said on Friday Ecuador's sovereign bonds were in default, the boldest action yet from the young socialist who often tries to aggressively wrangle ...

We continue our tour of South America by bringing you 10 crazy facts about Ecuador. Located in the northwestern corner of South America, Ecuador is 7 th most populous country on the continent and 9 th ...

ELECTIONS: Lucio Gutierrez, a cashiered army colonel who led a January, 2000 coup against President Jamil Mahuad, is favored in a runoff against Alvaro Noboa, Ecuador's wealthiest man (unrelated to ...