Just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate, a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of law enforcement continue in Ecuador.
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The vehicle explosion took place outside the Women s and Human Rights Ministry on Wednesday night in Quito. A second blast outside the prison ministry s building rocked the city early on Thursday.
Authorities attribute the country’s spike in violence over the past three years to a power vacuum triggered by the killing in 2020 of Jorge Zambrano, alias ‘Rasquiña’ or ‘JL,’ the leader of the local Los Choneros gang