what authorities are calling the worst penitentiary massacre in Ecuador’s history.... At least five

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The order came a day after bloodshed at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil that officials blamed on gangs linked to international drug cartels fighting for control of the facility.... Lasso, visibly moved by the carnage, said at a news conference that what had happened in the prison was “ bad and sad.” He also said he could not guarantee that authorities had regained control of the lockup.... Images circulating on social media showed dozens of bodies in the prison’s Pavilions 9 and 10 and s

" My brother is alive, my heart tells me so." President Guillermo Lasso, Monserrat added, must do more to help the poor.... " Other cell blocks with other groups wanted to control them, get inside and have a total massacre." Videos on social media purportedly posted by detainees overnight showed them begging for help to stop the violence as shots and explosions sounded in the background.... " I don't know if he's alive or dead."( Reporting by Alexandra Valencia in Quito and Yury Garcia in Guay

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QUITO, Ecuador— The death toll in a gang battle in a penitentiary in the coastal city of Guayaquil

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