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Adolfo Macías Villamar, known as Fito, escaped from prison on 7 January and plunged the country into chaos, Holly Evans writes

Terrified journalists being forced to kneel in a TV studio by gunmen pointing high-powered weapons at their heads as the cameras rolled, police...

A closer look at what is behind the wave of violence which has engulfed once-peaceful Ecuador.

Ecuadors recent turmoil was sparked after escape of notorious gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar

Adolfo Macías Villamar, known as Fito, escaped from prison on 7 January and plunged the country into chaos, Holly Evans writes

One of Ecuadors most feared gangsters is believed to have escaped from prison, a government spokesman said Monday as hundreds of police officers searched a maximum security jail.

A 60-day state of emergency has begun in Ecuador after convicted gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar vanished from his prison cell.

Ecuador's "most-wanted prisoner," the leader of the Los Choneros criminal group, Fito, has disappeared from the jail where he was being held, according to authorities.

Ecuador's most dangerous drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias Fito, has escaped from the high security Guayaquil prison. He is head of Los Choneros linked to El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel

The prison cell of the leader of the infamous Los Choneros gang, known as "Fito", was found empty.