GUAYAQUIL: Ecuador’s Armed Forces and the Police have carried out a joint operation at the prison in the major port of Guayaquil, following the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio during the election campaign.
Ecuador is under a state of emergency after the assassination of the presidential candidate on Thursday.
The leader of one of Ecuador’s strongest criminal groups Los Choneros, known as ‘Fito’, is imprisoned at Guayaqui jail. A video by AFP