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Quito, Jan 14 (EFE).- Ecuador’s security forces on Sunday carried out operations in several prisons occupied by groups of mutinous prisoners, as well as patrols and searches in the streets as part of the State’s battle against organized crime groups. After the successful freeing of 201 prison guards and administrators from seven prisons on Saturday, … ....
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa underlined Wednesday that we are at war and I will not give in. He made those remarks one day after multiple uprisings by drug trafficking groups particularly in Quito and Guayaquil resulted in at least 18 deaths and over 300 arrests, in addition to the people wounded, for which the head of state declared an internal armed conflict against terrorist organizations believed to be 20,000 strong. ....
Quito, Jan 11 (EFE). – 178 prison officials are being held hostage in simultaneous riots in Ecuador’s prisons, after the crisis spread to more penitentiaries on Thursday, prison authorities reported. Among the hostages are 158 guards and 20 administrators in the southern cities of Machala, Loja, Cuenca and Azogues, the central Latacunga and Ambato and … ....
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Quito, Jan. 9 (EFE) – A series of explosions, kidnappings of police officers and prison escapes were reported in different parts of Ecuador between Monday night and Tuesday morning in response to the declaration of a state of exception and nighttime curfew by the government. President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency on Monday … ....