The situation in seven prisons in Ecuador remains out of control, while the government of the new president, Daniel Noboa, continues with the help of the army efforts to restore law and order after the violence unleashed on Tuesday in Guayaquil by criminal groups linked to drug trafficking.
On Friday night, the Guayaquil Police reported the escape of 5 other inmates from the prison of El Litoral, the same from which the drug boss Adolfo Macias, alias 'Fito', escaped on Monday.
In the meantime, the settling of scores inside the penitentiaries also continues and in the last few hours the authorities have recovered the bodies of two inmates thrown outside the enclosures of the prisons of El Cañar and Azuay.
There remain 170 hostages (155 officers and 15 civilians) still in the hands of mutinous detainees throughout the country and the difficult negotiations for their release are also being carried out with the help of authorities of the Catholic Church.
After Tuesday's tragic day, in which at least 14 people died and many others were injured in raids by armed narcos gangs, President Noboa declared a state of "internal armed conflict", authorizing the use of armed forces in the fight against organized crime.
On this front, yesterday, the Armed Forces announced that they had dismantled a clandestine trail used by narcos in the town of Santa Elena and that they had captured 5 members of the 'Los Lagartos' gang in Guayaquil.
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