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Ecuador under state of emergency after drug lord Jose Adolfo Macias escapes maximum security jail.
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Ecuador has declared a state of emergency after a dangerous drug lord escaped a maximum security prison, as he did a decade ago.
President Daniel Noboa said he would mobilise troops on the streets and in prisons for 60 days after gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, aka “Fito”, disappeared.
Fito, leader of the powerful Los Choneros gang, was discovered missing on Sunday as police were inspecting the Guayaquil jail.
Los Choneros is blamed for a spike in violence which peaked at a new level last year with the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
Meanwhile, the prosecutor’s office said it had opened an investigation and filed charges against two prison officials “allegedly involved in the escape”.
Heavily armed police and soldiers later entered the prisons of El Oro, Loja, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, Azuay and Pichincha, and were seen rounding up half-naked inmates in courtyards.
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