Biggest News aggregator with 200 million news articles | vimarsana.com
of another one. they were shooting bullets inside the studio. the police were called and came in minutes. the gang was soon arrested and the hostages released. but the tv station ambush was just part of the descent into chaos. panic as gunmen stormed guayaquil university. explosions around the country. schools and businesses shut down. and widespread rioting inside ecuador�*s prisons. in response, president daniel noboa called a state of emergency and imposed a curfew. by decree he designated 22 gangs terrorist organisations and ordered the military to, as he put it, neutralise them. president noboa says that ecuador is now engaged in an internal armed conflict. but while this explosion of gang violence may have caught the nation off guard, in truth, the storm, which has turned ecuadorfrom one of the safest nations in latin america to one of the most violent,