Name: How Ecuador Became One of the World’s Most Violent Countries | WSJ
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- [Reporter] Ecuador is at war with drug gangs.

The South American country declared what it called

took over a TV studio and launched a series of attacks.

Fighting intensified after a top gang leader

Here's what's caused Ecuador's wave of violence

and what's at stake for the region and the US

- Ecuador has been going to a surge of violence

It's gone from one of the safest country in Latin America

On Sunday, what happened is that a lot of the drug gangs,

their leaders are located in the prisons.

And one of the leaders of one of the biggest gangs

in Ecuador escaped from prison on Sunday.

That prompted a response from the new president,

Daniel Noboa, who issued a state of emergency

another gang members took over a TV station in Guayaquil,

there was different incidents that occurred,

It seemed like a very coordinated response

to the government to try to send a message.

who's only been in office since November,

he declared an internal armed conflict in Ecuador.

So what that practically means is that the military

will now have a greater role in trying to improve security.

So basically, the gangs become military targets.

The soldiers are able to try to neutralize them.

that are going up to Europe and the United States.

A lot of the cocaine production in Colombia

The security experts say that it's actually easier

for Colombian gangs to move the drugs into Ecuador

And that has attracted a lot of attention

from international cartels, Mexican cartels,

for the local gangs who are now controlling this.

At the same time, a really key factor in this violence

has been the government's inability to control

and the de facto headquarters for the gangs

where they operate with immunity from inside.

Security experts will say that what needs to be done,

is that the government needs to take back control

Without that, it's very difficult to weaken the gangs

of how to deal with the international drug trade.

Mexico, several American countries right now

the most startling example of that by far.

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