Emergency in Ecuador: Nearly 70 Suspects Arrested, Police Reports

The past week of the war against ‘terrorist-gangs’ has been spent in attempts to take control of the country’s largest prisons. And to some extent, this has been successful – assaults have taken place in Tungurahua, Cuenca, Machala, Latacunga, Esmeraldas, and Guayaquil. Ecuadorian police detained 68 people after an attack on a hospital in the western province of Guayas, where armed disturbances took place following recent gang-instigated prison riots, the press service of the Ecuadorian police reported. “The National Police conducted an operation in which they detained 68 suspects linked to the takeover of a room in a medical center…