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Forty-eight hours of mayhem as gangsters murder prison guards and raid a TV station | The Americas

Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, was sprung from his cell on Sunday. Two days later, rival drug lord Fabricio Colón Pico, of the Los Lobos group, escaped from a different jail in Ecuador

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

It was a day like any other at the TC Television studio in Ecuador, with its mid-afternoon newscast underway, when masked gunmen bursted in.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Will Freeman, fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, about the violence outbreak across Ecuador following a high profile prison break.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Will Freeman, fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, about the violence outbreak across Ecuador following a high profile prison break.