Schools and stores are shuttered, many people stayed home and soldiers are roaming the streets of Ecuador’s biggest cities after armed gang members invaded a television station live afternoon newscast Source: Ecuador hunkers down for a government war on drug gangs after attack during live TV newscast Category: International
By Holly Evans Adolfo Macías Villamar, known as Fito, escaped from prison on 7 January and plunged the country into chaos, Holly Evans writes Source: Drugs cartel kingpin, body double and mystery jailbreak: The narco who plunged Ecuador into national emergency Category: Americas, World
Spain is following with “concern” the crisis in Ecuador, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Wednesday, a day after the Latin American country exploded in what President Daniel Noboa called an “internal armed conflict”. Source: Spain following with ‘concern’ Ecuador crisis: Sánchez