President Daniel Noboa imposed two-month emergency following escape from prison of country’s most dangerous gang leader
In a wave of terror across Ecuador, criminal gangs have kidnapped police officers and detonated a string of bombs, as prison inmates seized dozens of guards hostage just hours after President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency following the escape of the country’s most dangerous gang leader.
As thousands of soldiers and police searched for Adolfo Macías, alias Fito – the convicted leader of the powerful drug gang Los Choneros – chaos erupted inside and outside jails in an apparent show of force by organised crime gangs against the country’s new president.
