Phoenix Plan News Today

One of the new maps will go on to replace the current state senate district plan that a federal court struck down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

Quito, Apr 1 (Prensa Latina) The Easter Week in Ecuador ended with more than 30 people killed in coastal provinces amid an upturn of insecurity despite the state of emergency in force today in the country.

Ecuadors youngest mayor and another occupant of her car were found dead with wounds consistent with those stemming from firearms in the coastal city of San Vicente, in the province of Manabi, despite the state of emergency in force, it was reported Sunday.

The 36-year-old president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, is battling local and international drug gangs in his efforts to bring safety back to the country.

Ecuadors so-called internal armed conflict added a victim to its list of fatalities late Wednesday when 29-year-old Councilwoman Diana Carnero from the coastal municipality of Naranjal was shot dead in what is believed to be a murder-for-hire case.

Some 158 guards and 20 administrative staffers were taken hostage last Monday in at least seven prisons as the country grapples with an escalating security crisis.

A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country's spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. On Tuesday, thousands of viewers tuned in to TC Television watched live as the men threatened presenter...

Some attacks by armed men, notably an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast, have shone a light on Ecuador’s spiralling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape.

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal […]

The violence in Ecuador comes after Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macias made his apparent escape. He had been serving a 36-year sentence