he s been very clear that he wants to run for office again. people willjudge him with their votes on where he s able to manage or not. this has been certainly the biggest one that we face in the country, even though we have been facing a lot of security riots and problems with violence in the last three years. problems with violence in the last three years. how has this came last three years. how has this game leader last three years. how has this game leader fito last three years. how has this game leader fito gained - last three years. how has this game leader fito gained such| game leader fito gained such power? he game leader fito gained such ower? , ., ., ., power? he is the leader of one ofthe power? he is the leader of one of the biggest power? he is the leader of one of the biggest gains, power? he is the leader of one of the biggest gains, los - of the biggest gains, los chomeros. it has led him to be, into the institutions, into the political elite, into the economic
plus, us house republicans press forward with their plans to impeach the top official in charge of migration policies at the country s southern border. iam sumi i am sumi somaskanda. good to have you with us. ecuador s president announced that foreign prisoners in his country are being deported. president daniel noboa made the announcement wednesday, one day after masked gunmen stormed a public tv studio during a live broadcast in the city of guayaquil. president noboa hopes to cut down on ecuador s prison population, as more than 120 prison guards are still being held hostage by inmates across the country. nationwide unrest began a few days earlier, on sunday, when a notorious gang boss escaped from a maximum security facility. it s unclear whether the attack on the tv studio was related to the disappearance adolfo macias villamar, or fito, as he is better known.
by decree, he designated 22 gangs terrorist organisations and ordered the military to, as he put it, neutralise them. translation: we are practically living - in a state of war against terrorism. these are not organised crime groups, they are terrorists who are financed by drug trafficking, trafficking in people, organs and arms. 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 has been brewing for years. specifically this man. adolfo macias villamar, alias fito, is part of the reason ecuadorfinds itself on the brink of an internal war. he s the leader of a gang called los choneros and escaped his prison cell shortly before his transfer to a higher security wing.
his prison cell shortly before his transfer to a higher security wing. two prison guards have been arrested for allegedly helping him flee. the gangs are largely controlled from the prisons. even behind bars, macias ran his organisation without interference from the authorities. translation: people are scared, i they re closing all the stores, i there is no security. they re afraid gangsters will come and loot everything. an iron fist on crime has been used here before, but it did little to break the gangs stranglehold on the andean nation or slow its slide towards bloodshed. will grant, bbc news, guayaquil. earlier, i spoke to todd, former us ambassador to ecuador and now a non resident fellow at the center for strategic and international studies. ambassador, i want to ask you first of all what we saw ecuador two ecuador s president abella in talking about the