Some moments in life feel straight out of a dream, and for these scuba divers, reality had decided to play along. They glided through the blue abyss, searching for manta rays. Two colossal manta rays ...

Gangs, drugs and public safety threats are ravaging Ecuador’s largest city and may push the president to seek help from the ...

Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeno, who led an air force special operations unit, was shot multiple times in the city of Guayaquil while travelling to a military ... to Manta about three hours ...

Cedeño was traveling from Guayaquil to the city of Manta about three hours away ... Last month, the military said a leader of one of Ecuador's biggest crime syndicates, Los Lobos, was arrested ...

The Indonesian island of Nusa Lembongan is 40 minutes by “fast boat” from Bali’s Sanur, but I have reached it in half that time, disembarking from the military-grade, twin 300 HP Suzuki ...

Correa in 2008 expelled the U.S. military from Ecuador’s Manta airbase. Campaigning in 2023, Gonzalez associated U.S. use of the Manta base with the country’s high murder rate. Naboa is ...

It started off as a slice of American pie in the outback, but has now become a tourist destination better known for its ...

Under Correa, Ecuador’s policies were reflexively anti-American, and the president closed the American military base in Manta that was used to conduct drug interdictions and surveillance.

“He was on his way to a ceremony in the city of Manta,” to participate in a military ceremony for the thirtieth anniversary of the aerial victory in the 1995 Cenepa War between Ecuador and ...