Analysts are comparing Ecuador’s security crackdown to similar measures taken in El Salvador, raising concerns the country could backslide on democracy.
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Ecuador's new president grappled Tuesday with a security nightmare as gangsters held four police officers hostage after he declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison."You declared a state of emergency.
Ecuador has launched a manhunt for an "extremely dangerous" narco leader who has vanished from a maximum security prison in the South American country beset by drug gang violence.Izurieta said Fito who obtained a law degree in prison was a "criminal with extremely dangerous characteristics, whose activities have characteristics of terrorism."
Ecuador will build two new maximum security prisons styled on a mega-jail capable of housing 12,000 inmates created by El Salvador’s authoritarian leader.