Weaken Contact Terrorism operations about two hours from now, millions of voters in ecuador will start heading to the polls to vote on a Referendum Put forward by the countrys president. It asks voters to approve new Security Measures which aimed to tackle growing violence in the country to cnns Patrick Oppmann reports ecuador has been gripped by violence from gangs and drugs the cartels soldiers and ecuador patrol the streets as a country does battle with violent drug gangs in january, the increasingly brazen gangs took on the Government Headon carrying out coordinated attacks in broad daylight even holding journalists at a tv station hostage. Or ive anera let me that the Ecuadors President responded by asking lawmakers, per special wartime power ordering the military, just try the and declared war on terrorists these are not conventional gangs. They are a terrorist groups. They are highly organized,