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Some 158 guards and 20 administrative staffers were taken hostage last Monday in at least seven prisons as the country grapples with an escalating security crisis.
A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country's spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. On Tuesday, thousands of viewers tuned in to TC Television watched live as the men threatened presenters and studio hands with firearms and explosives that appeared to be sticks of dynamite.
Some attacks by armed men, notably an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast, have shone a light on Ecuador’s spiralling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (AP) — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal […]
The violence in Ecuador comes after Los Choneros gang leader Adolfo Macias made his apparent escape. He had been serving a 36-year sentence