Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of emergency and ordered the armed forces to join law enforcement operations on the streets as the country struggles to combat escalating drug-related violence. Lasso, in a televised speech.
QUITO (Ecuador), Oct 4 Ecuador’s government said yesterday it has been able to regain control of a prison where 118 people were killed in rioting this week and that other jails in the Andean country are under the supervision of the police and the military. Successive military and police.
QUITO, Oct 3 A police and military operation to enter a jail in the southern Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil amid disturbances mobilised more than a thousand personnel, officials said yesterday. The Regional Guayas jail is located next to the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, where 118 inmates.