Inmates in Ecuador's brutal prisons took 57 guards and police officers hostage, as explosions went off outside the walls. Sky News spoke to experts about Ecuador's ferocious cocaine trade and what, if anything, can be done.
Footage shows moments before presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot and killed.
"In a sense his proposals set off a wave of retaliation that ended up claiming his life," Mr Freeman said. The national currency is dollars which makes it ideal for cartels wanting to launder money, he added. Since then, control over the drug routes across the Ecuador-Colombia border has been a competition among several groups, Dr Annette Idler, an associate professor of global security at the University of Oxford, told Sky News.
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