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The Ecuadorian police and army have detained more than 1,750 people from January 9-16, including 158 suspected of terrorism, amid a wave of gang violence that swept the South American country last week, the office of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said Tuesday.

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The Peruvian Interior Ministry said Tuesday that police special forces are being deployed to the border with neighboring Ecuador after Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared a state of internal armed conflict in the country and ordered Ecuadors army to "neutralize" criminal groups operating in the country.

Fabricio Colon Pico, the leader of Ecuadors second-largest criminal gang, Los Lobos, has escaped from prison as a result of riots, the countrys National Service for Comprehensive Assistance to Adult Persons Deprived of Liberty and Teenage Offenders of Ecuador (SNAI) said Tuesday.

The unrest came as authorities raided prisons in search of weapons and in an effort to disperse gang members to different facilities. During Sundays search of the Guayaquil prison, law enforcement officials failed to find the leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared on Tuesday that the country is in a state of internal armed conflict amid the hostage-taking riots in various cities and prisons and designated several organized crime groups as "terrorist organizations."

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( Tomdispatch.com ) - Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased …

Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum.