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Quito, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) The government of Ecuador revealed a list of "real capos" who operate in the country today and constitute "military targets" as part of the fight against organized crime.

Quito, Jan 20 (Prensa Latina) The murder of prosecutor César Suárez last Wednesday, in the middle of a state of emergency and with the soldiers in the streets, shook Ecuador during the week that ends today.

Quito, Jan 14 (EFE).- Ecuador’s security forces on Sunday carried out operations in several prisons occupied by groups of mutinous prisoners, as well as patrols and searches in the streets as part of the State’s battle against organized crime groups. After the successful freeing of 201 prison guards and administrators from seven prisons on Saturday, …

President Daniel Noboa decreed a state of emergency Jan. 8.

Police officers stand guard outside the City Hall building in Quito on Jan. 10, 2024, as Ecuador remains in a state of emergency following the escape from prison of a dangerous narco boss. / Credit: STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images ACI Prensa Staf...

The latest prison massacre on April 3, 2022 in the El Turi prison in the southern Ecuadorian city of Cuenca resulted in the deaths of 20 people. Ten people were also injured and taken to hospitals, at least five of them in critical condition. Ecuadorian authorities blamed the violence on the leaders of criminal gangs vying for control of prisons.