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Analysts are comparing Ecuador’s security crackdown to similar measures taken in El Salvador, raising concerns the country could backslide on democracy.

Ecuador's new president grappled Tuesday with a security nightmare as gangsters held four police officers hostage after he declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison."You declared a state of emergency.

Ecuador has launched a manhunt for an "extremely dangerous" narco leader who has vanished from a maximum security prison in the South American country beset by drug gang violence.Izurieta said Fito -- who obtained a law degree in prison -- was a "criminal with extremely dangerous characteristics, whose activities have characteristics of terrorism."

Ecuador will build two new maximum security prisons styled on a mega-jail capable of housing 12,000 inmates created by El Salvador’s authoritarian leader.

A man who was wrongfully convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X and exonerated in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the federal government alleging the agency withheld evidence that would have proved his innocence at the time of the trial.