Once a refuge for peace, the country has in recent years become a powder keg ready to explode. The deal is done: Since Monday, Ecuador has been plunged into a cycle of violence fueled by drug gangs that has already left at least ten people dead. To try to end this “internal armed conflict,” young President Daniel Noboa, who promised to end instability last November, declared a 60-day state of emergency on Monday and ordered “mobilization and intervention.” armed forces and national police.”
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Lose Adolfo “Fito” Macias, leader of the fearsome Choneros gang and the country’s number one enemy, and then Fabricio Colon Pico, leader of the Lobos, escaped from a Guayaquil prison on Sunday. as a detonator. Then riots and the taking of guards hostage affected several prisons, and the University of Guayaquil was attacked. Armed men stormed a public television set in Guayaquil on Tuesday afternoon, briefly taking the channel’s journalists hostage.
Source: Le Parisien
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