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Images of police deployed in front of the prosecutor's office in Quito, Ecuador, as former vice-president Jorge Glas awaits transfer to prison. Mexico says it has cut diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police stormed the country's embassy in Quito to arrest Glas who was taking refuge there. IMAGES
Images have surfaced of the Federal Police headquarters in Santos, on the coast of Sao Paulo, where former Brazilian football player Robinho was held after his arrest. He was sentenced to nine years in prison in Brazil for his involvement in a gang rape case in Italy dating back to 2017. IMAGES
Images of Ecuador's National Police removing the body of the prosecutor investigating an armed assault by gangsters on live television from a crime scene, after he was shot dead in Guayaquil. Images also show Cesar Suarez's car riddled with bullet holes on the street. 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
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
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