Death toll from violence in Ecuador prisons hits 31
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Quito, EcuadorReuters Ecuador’s Attorney General raised the death toll from a wave of violence over the weekend in one the country’s most dangerous jails to 31 late on Tuesday, after the government earlier declared a 60-day state of emergency for the country’s prisons. The emergency declaration seemed to set off violence in the […]
Ecuador: Surging Guayaquil violence highlights security ahead of presidential vote
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Ecuador insecurity, drug crime hitting exporters – business group
Guayaquil, Ecuador Reuters Insecurity in Ecuador is hurting the Andean country’s exports of products like bananas and shrimp, an exporters association said, amid assaults on shipping containers and contamination of shipments with drugs. At least 63 people linked to exports of bananas, shrimp and cacao – the raw material used to make chocolate – were […]
Ecuador to increase police manpower in Guayaquil after killings
Quito, EcuadorReuters Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said on Sunday he will send an additional 1,100 police officers to coastal Guayaquil and increase military presence there amid a spate of violent deaths the government says are connected to the fight against the drug trade. Violence and crime, including within the prison system, soared in Ecuador late […]