A “significant number of inmates” have escaped, the interior minister said at a news conference.
Ecuador is a key transit point for the movement of cocaine from South America to the United States, Europe and Asia — and a frequent battleground for rival gangs fighting to control these routes. The country’s notoriously overcrowded and under-resourced prisons are now ensnared in the escalating turf wars between gangs linked to international drug cartels.In April, at least 20 people were killed, and some mutilated, during a riot in El Turi prison, near the city of Cuenca.
The majority of those killed were young and accused of minor crimes, and some were waiting to be released, the report found. Ecuador’s Ombudsman’s Office
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