Human Rights Watch has been monitoring, with dismay, the increase in violence in Ecuador, which in recent years has become one of the countries with the highest homicide rates in the region.
Ecuador’s prison system has turned into the headquarters for criminal groups that have amassed foot soldiers and influence across the country, say experts. In less than a decade, organized crime has turned the relatively peaceful country into one of the most dangerous places in Latin America.
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