Human Rights Watch has been monitoring, with dismay, the increase in violence in Ecuador, which in recent years has become one of the countries with the highest homicide rates in the region.
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The unrest came as authorities raided prisons in search of weapons and in an effort to disperse gang members to different facilities. During Sunday s search of the Guayaquil prison, law enforcement officials failed to find the leader of the Los Choneros gang, Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar.
Quito, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador is living on Tuesday in terror with eight explosive attacks in the city of Guayaquil and two in Esmeraldas, the assassination of two police officers, and the kidnapping of prison officers.