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Added on the 12/01/2024 21:01:20 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Images of armed soldiers on guard outside the Regional 8 prison complex, as Ecuador's army and police launch an operation in the nerve center of a drug war between the government and powerful criminal groups. IMAGES
Shops shut early in northern Quito, Ecuador's capital, after hooded gunmen stormed a television studio and gangsters threatened to execute security forces and civilians. IMAGES
1. "Hello, I am Lieutenant Ana Belen Ortiz, I belong to the Quartermaster Corps and I am currently in the Patiño combat supply ship, this is the office of the Economic-Administrative Service where I mainly develop my daily activity"2. "I am a habitability officer and a public information officer"
Hundreds of indigenous people clash with armed forces as they march towards Quito to protest against rising fuel prices due to the government scrapping subsidies. IMAGES
Ecuador's police arrest a gang leader accused in a failed plot to assassinate Ecuador's attorney general, three months after escaping from prison, according to officials. Fabricio Colon Pico, a leader of the Los Lobos gang, was one of the country's most wanted men. IMAGES