Armed attack during live broadcast at Ecuadorian TV station. What's behind the spiraling violence?
by Gonzalo Solano
Jan 10, 2024
3 minutes
A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country's spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape.
The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Sunday, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency.
On Tuesday, thousands of viewers tuned in to TC Television
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