For Ecuadorians, the start of the year has turned into a security nightmare.
The authorities seem to have lost all control over the country.
While the armed gangs were holding most of their guards hostage in the prisons, the leaders of the country's two main gangs escaped on Sunday January 7 from their place of detention in Guayaquil, the economic capital, before an intervention by the law enforcement which aimed to transfer them to other penitentiaries.
José Adolfo Macias, alias
“Fito”
, leader of the Choneros gang, and Fabricio Colon Pico, leader of the Lobos have, in all probability, been warned by their jailers of their next move.
Clashes between gangs and police left several dozen dead in the days that followed, spreading chaos across much of the country.
On Tuesday January 9, around fifteen hooded men took over a TC TV studio while a program was being broadcast live.
The journalists and technicians present on the set experienced fifteen minutes of terror during this operation, the objective of which remains mysterious.
The attackers then allowed themselves to be arrested by the police without opposing…
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