When Ecuadorians voted two years ago to block oil drilling in Yasuni National Park, it was a triumph for environmentalists ...

Peru's Congress has passed a law granting "humanitarian" amnesty to nearly 900 military and police officers convicted or facing charges for rights violations .

A strong earthquake shook southern Ecuador and northern Peru on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, trapping others under rubble, and sending rescue teams out into streets littered with debris ...

It’s a situation commonly faced by Quechua speakers in South America, even though the language is used by an estimated 10 million people in the region — largely in Peru,. Ecuador and Bolivia ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 jolted the Peru-Ecuador border region on Friday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) said, but only minor reports of damage were registered ...

To understand how drug trafficking mutated in Ecuador, one must look back to the start of the 2000s. "In those years, Ecuador began a tough campaign to eradicate coca plantations," explained Pazmino.

While Peru’s preliminary results have put a left-wing candidate in the pole position, Lasso’s victory in Ecuador does not look good for South America’s traditional left.

As it turns out, the whole roasted guinea pig was not the most memorable dish from a recent trip to Peru and Ecuador. And it wasn’t the tree tomatoes or polka-dotted potatoes either.

Peru and Ecuador agreed Friday on terms to settle South America’s hottest border dispute, a half-century Andean conflict that last brought the countries to war in 1995. The tentative peace pact ...