2026 in Ecuador

• President: Daniel Noboa
• Vice President: Sariha Moya

• 11 January – Five decapitated heads are found hanging from a beach in Puerto López.^[1]
• 21–22 January – Ecuador announces a 30% tariff on imports from Colombia, prompting Bogota to impose a retaliatory 30% tariff and suspends sales of electricity to Ecuador, which then leads to Ecuador imposing a tariff on Colombian oil passing through the OCP pipeline.^[2]

• 6–22 February – Ecuador at the 2026 Winter Olympics
• 10 February – Eleven people, including Guayaquil mayor Aquiles Alvarez and two of his brothers, including Barcelona S.C. president Antonio Alvarez, are arrested as part of an investigation into money laundering.^[3]
• 23 February – Seven people are killed in an attack by gunmen on a property in Manabí Province.^[4]

• 2 March – President Noboa announces the beginning of joint anti-narcotics operations with the United States.^[5]
• 3 March – Ecuador expels the Cuban ambassador, José María Borja, and his entire diplomatic staff for unspecified reasons.^[6]
• 6 March –
  • Cuba closes its embassy in Quito.^[7]
  • The United States carries out airstrikes on narcoterrorists in Ecuador at the request of the Ecuadorian government, targeting a camp belonging to a faction of FARC dissidents at the border with Colombia.^[8]
• 14 March – The government begins enforcing a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. in the provinces of El Oro, Guayas, Los Ríos, and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas to support military operations against criminal organizations.^[9]
• 17 March –
  • The government deploys 75,000 soldiers and police officers to several provinces to enforce the curfew.^[10]
  • Colombia accuses Ecuador of infiltrating its territory and carrying out an airstrike that killed 27 people along their border.^[11]
• 18 March – Ángel Esteban Aguilar Morales aka Lobo Menor, a suspected leader of the Los Lobos gang who is wanted over the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio in 2023, is arrested in Mexico and extradited to Colombia, where he is also wanted on charges of involvement with FARC dissidents.^[12]

• 16 April – A bus plunges into a ravine in Molleturo, Azuay, killing 14 people and injuring 29 others.^[13]

Source:^[14]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 16-17 February – Carnival
• 3 April – Good Friday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 25 May – Battle of Pichincha Holiday
• 11 August – National Day Holiday
• 10 October – Independence of Guayaquil
• 1 November – All Souls' Day
• 3 November – Independence of Cuenca
• 25 December – Christmas Day