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Images released by Ecuador's Armed Forces show military personnel and police officers carrying out a joint operation at the Zonal Penitentiary No 8 in the major port of Guayaquil. It comes amid the state of emergency declared in Ecuador on August 10, following the assassination of popular presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio ahead of the elections. The leader of one of Ecuador's most powerful criminal groups Los Choneros, known as 'Fito', is incarcerated at the penitentiary. IMAGES
An armored military vehicle rams a door of the presidential palace while troops gather in the Plaza Murillo in Bolivia's capital La Paz. Bolivian President Luis Arce denounced the unauthorized gathering of soldiers and tanks, writing on the X social network that "democracy must be respected." IMAGES
Images of soldiers patrolling the streets of Ecuador's capital, Quito, on armored vehicles after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels that use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
Peruvian police officers in the capital Lima board a plane bound for the northern border with Ecuador, after Peru put the border under a state of emergency following the security crisis that erupted in the neighboring country. Ecuador's president has given orders to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits threatened random executions on a second day of terror in the country. IMAGES
Images show the legal medicine and forensic services headquarter in Ecuador’s capital Quito, where a hearse covered by a national flag is parked outside and police officers stand guard. Ecuador is under a state of emergency after the assassination of a popular presidential candidate just days before an election. IMAGES
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