Esmeraldas Province

One of 22 provinces in Ecuador, located in the northwest of the country, near the Pacific Ocean.

The journalists killed by FARC in Ecuador

The journalists killed by FARC in Ecuador

Two journalists and a driver of a daily paper were killed by the in . 36-year-old Javier Ortega, 45-year-old Paul Rivas and 60-year-old Efrain Segarra were missing since March 26, when they went to the Esmeraldas province to write a report on the deteriorating safety situation on the border with .