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...Criminal activity began to flourish in Ecuador in the past decade during the leftwing government of Rafael Correa, who took a lax approach to drug trafficking so long as violent crime was kept low....
...Earlier this month, the transfer of jailed gang leader José Adolfo Macías, known as “Fito”, to a maximum security prison in Guayaquil triggered unrest in the port city....
...the studio soon after, arresting 13 intruders and liberating the hostages, but across the country similarly harrowing scenes were playing out, triggered by the escape of jailed drug-lord Adolfo “Fito” Macías...
...Villavicencio, formerly a reporter who uncovered graft during the governments of Rafael Correa, had long been a target of the former socialist president’s ire....
...Ken Lander experienced the pain of the grower first hand when he quit his legal career in the US to live in San Rafael de Abangares, in north-west Costa Rica....
...But today, renowned Peruvian chefs such as Gastón Acurio and Rafael Osterling are opening restaurants, while the number of festivals and concerts has rocketed....
...The book is particularly strong on Federer’s place in tennis history — and funny about Rafael Nadal, Federer’s nemesis....
...But Jorge Vasquez said: “There are many good things in the constitution. The president is doing justice by wiping out the rich and corrupt.”...
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