Soldiers raid Ecuador prison as two arrested for prosecutor’s murder

Al Jazeera

January 19, 2024

Ecuador’s security forces have stormed a major prison complex as part of a “war” between the government and powerful criminal gangs as police arrested the suspected killers of a prosecutor.

Hundreds of soldiers and police launched an operation on Thursday in a vast penitentiary complex in the port city of Guayaquil – the same one from which gang boss Adolfo Macias, alias “Fito”, escaped last week.