Ecuador crisis – President declares country at war with drugs gangs | BBC News

To South America now and the unprecedented violence on the streets of Ecuador with the president declaring the country is in a state of war with ruthless drug gangs armed groups linked to drug cartels have launched a wave of bomb attacks with more than 130 prison officers being held hostage by inmates

In a number of jails the violence began after a notorious drug lord escaped prison tourists are being warned to stay indoors until further notice with all but essential travel discouraged yesterday mased gunmen raided a TV station during a live broadcast in the city of guak keil and will grant our

Correspondent is there live for us now will clyve guil today is a city in shock few residents here could believe the extreme gang violence that was Unleashed murders bomb attacks prison officers taken hostages all of it uh unprecedented in the history of this Port City but also unprecedented in the history of

Ecuador viewers in Ecuador watched in disbelief as masked and armed gang members entered a state TV channel and held staff hostage all of it televised live they shot one of our cameramen in the leg broke the arm of another one they were shooting bullets inside the studio the police were called and came

In minutes the gang was soon arrested and the hostages released but the TV station Ambush was just part of the descent into chaos Panic as gunman stormed guill University explosions around the country schools and businesses shut down and widespread rioting inside Ecuador’s prisons in response president Daniel

Nabor called a state of emergency and imposed a curfew by decree he designated 20 22 gangs terrorist organizations and ordered the military to as he put it neutralize them we are practically living in a state of war against terrorism these are not organized crime groups they are terrorists who are

Financed by drug trafficking trafficking in people organs and arms President naboa says that Ecuador is now engaged in an internal armed conflict but while this explosion of gang violence may have caught the nation off guard in truth the storm which has turned Ecuador from one of the safest nations in Latin America

To one of the most violent has been brewing for years specifically this man adul masas vamar Alias fto is part of the reason Ecuador finds itself on the brink of an internal War he’s the leader of a gang called Los cheros and escaped his prison cell shortly before his transfer to a

Higher security Wing two prison guards have been arrested for allegedly helping him flee the gangs are largely controlled from the prisons even Behind Bars Maas ran his organization without interference from the authorities people are scared they’re closing all the stores there’s no security they’re afraid gangsters will come and loot

Everything an iron fist on crime has been used here before but it did little to break the gang’s strength Ang Le hold on the andian nation or slow its slide towards Bloodshed will grant BBC News gu kill

Ecuador’s President has declared that his country is engaged in an internal war with ruthless drugs gangs, after unprecedented violence on the streets.

Armed groups linked to drug cartels have launched a wave of bomb attacks and more than 130 prison officers are being held hostage by inmates in jails.

The violence began after a notorious drug lord escaped from prison. Tourists are being advised to stay indoors.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Will Grant in the city of Guayaquil, where masked gunmen stormed a TV studio.

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38 comments

  10. Such things are born in prisons. Why a government would force dangerous individuals to live together is what you should really question.

  11. How much of the weapons in Ecuadorian drug gangs were NATO weapons transferred to Ukraine that got resold to the black market? Weapons have already turned up in Syria.

  12. When drug gangs can make a country to declare state of emergency you know how strong the gangs are and how weak and useless the gov is.

  14. man, world news just keeps getting more and more action. its like a thriller. cant wait till my country will be in the news. 😂 it will be fukked up.

  16. What’s so sad is that If you look at the gang members, they look like kids. Like I swear some of those guys couldn’t have been 16 17 or 18….that’s just sad to be hooked into something like that at such a young age…

  23. What is really going on in Ecuador?! Can you say that Satan is planning all this chaos under his sleeve. All hell has broken loose.

  32. President Noboa is trying to rule Equador with, as Stalin had tried, an iron fist trying to "neutralise" gangs instead of learning to co-exist in relative peace and harmony, as Mexico has done, with its cartels. It is believed that cartels in Mexico are, in fact, the 5th largest employer raising the livelihoods of many of its citizens. In lieu of branding 22 gangs as "terrorist organisations", Noboa should be open to peaceful coexistence. I wonder if President No-boa is just a puppet for US interests trying to constrict underground enterprise and eliminate the wild snakes of Equador in hopes of paving inroads and quelling resistance for American intervention & expansion?

  36. sick just sick I saw on a site how they slaughter people like it's nothing legs arms heads every limb is chopped off mercilessly for parents or children, women are slaughtered, people are shot for whatever reason, the fact that you do or can do something like that is evil. you are heartless, not a human being, not an animal, but a devilish beast. so many murders are committed in the world. is not normal, wars, Africa, South America where no laws are observed, everyone does whatever, ALLAH (GOD) says in the Koran that the angels said when he put Adam the first man on earth "They said: "Go on it (earth) appoint one who will cause corruption in it and shed blood, while we magnify You with Your praise and sanctify You?” (Surat al-Baqarah: 30) and Allah said, “Verily I know what you do not know.”

    the angels already knew what was going to happen. But Allah does everything for a reason, after all, he is the creator of everything and we will all be accountable to him.

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