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Added on the 02/12/2021 12:04:51 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Police try to extinguish vehicles on fire outside Guerrero State Prosecutor's Office during a demonstration over the death of a student from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college at the hands of the police. The demonstration takes place against a backdrop of flaring tensions over the case of 43 students from the same college who went missing nearly a decade ago. IMAGES
Ecuador's Armed Forces and police officers guard Machala prison a day after security forces took back control of several jails that had fallen into the hands of gang members. The country's simmering security crisis erupted last week as the government and powerful narco gangs declared all-out war on each other, after the prison escape of a dangerous drug lord. IMAGES
Ecuador's military continues search operations as the country was declared under a "state of emergency" following an escalation of gang violence, since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful narco bosses. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
A nightclub, swimming pools, and a playground have been discovered at the Tocoron prison in Venezuela, after authorities recaptured the facility from a powerful gang with international reach that had long used it as its headquarters. IMAGES
Guns, ammunition, grenades, vehicles and other seized items are put on show at Venezuela's Tocoron prison, after authorities took back control of it from a powerful gang in a major operation involving 11,000 members of its security forces. IMAGES