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At least 62 inmates died Tuesday and several were injured in riots blamed on gang rivalry at three jails in Ecuador’s overcrowded prison system, authorities said. As security forces battled to regain control, distraught family members waited desperately for news outside the prison in Ecuador’s western port city of Guayaquil, where officials said 21 died.
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Sixty-seven people were killed in three prison mutinies carried out by criminal organizations in Ecuador, the head of the National Service of Attention to People Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) said on Tuesday. SNAI director Edmundo Moncayo said that some members of staff were injured in the disorders but none were among the dead in a
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Ecuador’s National Electoral council decided Sunday to suspend four political organizations, including the Fuerza Compromiso Social party of former president Rafael Correa. The registrations for Podemos, Fuerza Compromiso Social (FCS), Libertad es Pueblo and Justicia Social were left “without effect,” the CNE said after a virtual meeting. The nation’s highest electoral body responded to a
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Former Ecuador’s president, Abdala Bucaram, has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation into the purchase of hospital supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, the public prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday. The 68-year-old, who was removed from office in 1997, was arrested during a search of his home in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, the epicenter
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Golden Eaglets of Nigeria have advanced to the Round of 16 of the 2019 Fifa U17 World Cup after beating Ecuador 3-2. After a 4-2 comeback win over Hungary in their opening fixture, Manu Garba’s boys showed resilience again to see off the South Americans on Tuesday. ALSO READ: Golden Eaglets’ victory excites Buhari, urges them
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The government of Ecuador has revealed that the protests by its citizens sparked by fuel price hikes have left six people dead and 1,507 injured. A total of 1,330 people were arrested for protest-related crimes, such as vandalism, Interior Minister Maria Paula Romo said at a joint press conference with General Commander of the National
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Ecuador protesters have on Friday according to media report taken eight officers hostage. Indigenous demonstrators paraded the seven men and one woman on a stage in Quito before a crowd of thousands. They are demanding the end of austerity measures and some even the resignation of President Lenín Moreno, who declared a state of emergency
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Protests against the lifting of fuel subsidies hampered traffic in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.
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Protests over fuel subsidy cuts in Ecuador have halted transport and blocked streets around the country for a second day on Friday as 350 people were jailed for unrest triggered by President Lenin Moreno’s austerity measures. The 66-year-old president has set oil producer Ecuador on a centrist path after years of leftist rule under Rafael
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Julian Paul Assange was born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer who is the Editor of WikiLeaks. He was a grantee of political asylum and subject to a British arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006 and came to international attention in 2010 when WikiLeaks published
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