A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape.
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José Adolfo Macías, known more widely as Fito , is the leader of the feared Los Choneros - which until recent years was safely Ecuador s largest and most feared gang.