Ecuador is experiencing a surge in violence, with eight people killed in Guayaquil, a city in the southwest, last Saturday. This event is part of a series of three massacres within two days, marking a worrying escalation. Attackers, armed and in a vehicle, targeted a group in the Guasmo sector, causing immediate fatalities and numerous […]
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