The vehicles screech into a neighborhood in Pascuales, a gang stronghold in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s biggest city, allowing CNN to follow them. Families are grilling outside, and children splash in ...

Days after the post, Francisco Yampis, a mayor of another town in Condorcanqui, which lies on Peru’s border with Ecuador, said it was the Choneros, one of Ecuador’s largest criminal groups, who’d ...