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...A wave of gang violence has rocked Ecuador after the disappearance of a powerful drug gang boss from jail, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency as it struggles to tackle a crime wave...
...Prison guards and staff taken hostage by inmates across Ecuador have been freed, the country’s government said after a crackdown on gang violence as part of its “war” against drug traffickers....
...Ecuador’s business capital has become a violent drug-trafficking hub....
...Today, it is Noboa who as president has declared a war on Ecuador’s gangs....
...Ecuador’s prison service warned 125 guards and 14 administrative staff had been taken hostage across five different jails, with 11 later freed....
...Daniel Noboa has been sworn in as president of Ecuador, as the country faces debt repayments, social unrest, and surging crime....
...Ecuador’s centre-right president-elect Daniel Noboa has tapped Sariha Moya, a relatively unknown economist, to be his finance minister when he takes office next month....
...Ecuador has arrested an alleged leader of one the country’s most powerful drug-trafficking gangs, days after President Daniel Noboa took office promising to tackle a surging crime wave....
...Ecuador elected Daniel Noboa as president on Sunday as the South American country grapples with an unprecedented crime wave and an ailing economy....
...Those family members have since lodged legal cases against Álvaro’s companies in the Bahamas and Ecuador, alleging they were never paid under the 2010 agreement....
...Markets rallied in response to Noboa’s victory, with Ecuador’s 2035 bonds jumping 2.87 cents on the dollar on Monday....
...Correa lives in exile in Belgium to avoid a corruption conviction in Ecuador relating to his presidency, which he has characterised as politically motivated....
...Once considered relatively peaceful, Ecuador has become one of the most violent countries in South America as local and international drug cartels fight over trafficking routes....
...“Ecuador doesn’t have the luxury of overlooking mining; we have a bunch of needs and it’s not like all other industries are booming,” said María Eulalia Silva, head of Ecuador’s chamber of mining....
...A wave of gang violence has rocked Ecuador after the disappearance of a powerful drug gang boss from jail, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency....
...In the first six months of the year, 3,500 homicides were reported in Ecuador, according to police statistics....
...Once a relatively tranquil country popular with foreign retirees, Ecuador is at present tackling a crime wave that has seen the murder rate increase nine-fold since 2017....
...Ecuador, once a relatively tranquil country popular with foreign retirees, is currently tackling a crime wave that has seen the murder rate increase nine-fold since 2017....
...Ecuador has been beset by a surge in violent crime in recent years as criminal organisations fought to consolidate drug-trafficking routes....
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