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Quito, Jan 15 (Prensa Latina) The number of people arrested in Ecuador during the first six days of having declared the internal armed conflict against organized crime rose to 1,534, of which 158 were arrested for alleged terrorism, authorities reported on Monday.
Quito, Jan 14 (EFE).- Ecuador’s security forces on Sunday carried out operations in several prisons occupied by groups of mutinous prisoners, as well as patrols and searches in the streets as part of the State’s battle against organized crime groups. After the successful freeing of 201 prison guards and administrators from seven prisons on Saturday, …
Ecuador's President has called in the army to fight the country's rampant drug gangs. Sadly he can at best sever the fingertips of a criminal hydra, as big as the world itself.
QUITO: Ecuador’s president gave orders on Tuesday to “neutralize” criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a...
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa underlined Wednesday that 'we are at war and I will not give in.' He made those remarks one day after multiple uprisings by drug trafficking groups particularly in Quito and Guayaquil resulted in at least 18 deaths and over 300 arrests, in addition to the people wounded, for which the head of state declared an 'internal armed conflict' against terrorist organizations believed to be 20,000 strong.