President Lasso imposes 60-day order and authorizes armed forces to retake control on country’s violence-plagued prisons
Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso has declared a 60-day state of emergency throughout the country’s prisons and authorized the armed forces to retake control of jails, following a wave of violence in the country’s most notorious prison and a string of protests in which inmates took nearly 100 guards hostage.
The measure – the second state of emergency that Lasso has ordered in less than 24 hours – will be in effect for 60 days and orders the immediate mobilization of the military and police in an effort to regain control of the prisons.
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