population, as more than 120 prison guards are still being held hostage by inmates across the country. nationwide unrest began a few days earlier on sunday when a notorious gang boss escaped from a maximum security facility. it s unclear whether the attack on the tv studio was related to the disappearance of adolfo macias villamar, or fito, as he is better known. after the escape, but before the tv studio attack, a 60 day state of emergency was issued in ecuador on monday. earlier, i spoke to todd chapman, former us ambasador to ecuador and now a non resident fellow at the centre for strategic and international studies. ambassador, i want to ask you first of all what we saw ecuador s president noboa say, in talking about the crisis this country is going through. he said his government is fighting against terrorist groups, and said they want me to call them groups of organised crime, because it is easier. when they are terrorists and where we live in
two prison guards have been arrested for allegedly helping him flee. the gangs are largely controlled from the prisons. even behind bars, macias ran his organisation without interference from the authorities. translation: people are scared. they re closing all the stores. there is no security. they re afraid gangsters will come and loot everything. an iron fist on crime has been used here before, but it did little to break the gangs stranglehold on the andean nation or slow its slide towards bloodshed. will grant, bbc news, guayaquil. earlier i spoke to todd chapman, former us ambassador to ecuador and now a non resident fellow at the centre for strategic and international studies. ambassador, i want to ask you first of all, when we saw ecuador s president noboa in talking about the crisis, he said his government is fighting against terrorist
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