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To Catch Killers: Two suspects believed to be involved in the murder of an Ecuadorian prosecutor were arrested on Thursday. Following the arrest, authorities discovered rifles, handguns, ammunition, and clothing belonging to the transit agency in Guayaquil. The prosecutor, Cesar Suarez, was killed on Wednesday following an ambush by the killers while driving in his vehicle through a neighborhood of Guayaquil,...

As this publication reported earlier today, the Ecuadorian government claimed that 133 people were being held hostage across the country by criminal gangs. The Ecuadorian government has now claimed that 177 hostages have been freed across the country. The announcement reads below: At 2100 EST security forces stormed the Tungurahau Prison and freed 13 prisoner security officials and secured the...

As of 1820 EST, the Ecuadorian government claimed that criminal groups had killed one prison guard and retained 133 hostages. The government also claims that it secured the release of 24 persons. Most of these prisoners were taken across the various prisons in the country. By 0200 EST this morning, the Ecuadorian government claimed that it has arrested 859 persons...

The Lead Up: On Monday, Ecuador President Daniel Noboa declared a nationwide state of emergency and mobilized the country's military to patrol prisons and the streets after notorious Los Choneros gang leader Jose "Fito" Macias escaped from a prison in Guayaquil. Escalations: https://twitter.com/wenewsec/status/1744566710554747133 Following the escape and seemingly in response to the military mobilization, riots broke out in prisons in El Oro, Loja,...

Footage has emerged of an Ecuadorian gang member executing a prison guard, after taking a group of them hostage. The footage is graphic, as a warning. $bp("Brid_04837331", {"id":"35785","width":"960","height":"540","video":"1523804"});   The execution of the prison guard comes as Ecuador’s military is combatting a myriad of different gangs/cartels throughout Ecuador, after the President declared a state of “Internal Armed Conflict” due to waves...