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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Ecuadorian authorities reported Sunday that Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito” and the leader of Los Choneros gang, wasn’t in his cell in a low security prison.

Prosecutors opened an investigation and charged two guards in connection with the alleged escape, but neither the police, the corrections system, nor the federal government confirmed whether Macías fled the facility or might be hiding in it.

On Monday, President Daniel Noboa decreed a national state of emergency for 60 days, allowing the authorities to suspend rights and mobilize the military in places like prisons.

Macías, who was convicted of drug trafficking, murder and organized crime, was serving a 34-year sentence in La Regional prison in the port of Guayaquil.

Los Choneros is one of the Ecuadorian gangs authorities consider responsible for a spike in violence that reached a new level last year with the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

Experts and authorities have acknowledged that gang members practically rule from inside the prisons, and Macías was believed to have continued controlling his group from within the detention facility.


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oops - how did you get the wrong article, dear bot?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

TBF, it's all about the same thing. Ecuador is kind of crazy right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Half way through the article, I was thinking, how and why are they gonna end up breaking into a TV studio ?