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Jose Adolfo Macias, known as 'Fito', is believed to have escaped his cell in the maximum-security wing of a jail in Guayaquil some time on Sunday.
Ecuador is in the thrall of brutal bloodthirsty gangs who are battling for control in spiralling turf wars that see gun massacres and beheadings.
Ecuador used to be one of Latin America's most peaceful nations. Today, criminals prowl relatively wealthy and working-class neighborhoods alike. There are professional hitmen, kidnappers, extortionists and thousands of thieves
Ecuador used to be one of Latin America's most peaceful nations. Today, criminals prowl relatively wealthy and working-class neighborhoods alike. There are professional hitmen, kidnappers, extortionists and thousands of thieves and robbers. Mexican and Colombian cartels have settled into coastal cities and grabbed chunks of the trade shipping hundreds of millions of dollars in cocaine from neighboring Peru and Colombia to consumers overseas. One of the candidates in a special Aug. 20 presidential election had a famously tough stance on organized crime and corruption. Fernando Villavicenci...
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