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The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed and several others were injured in the riot that took place in that prison. It was the deadliest prison fight in the country's history [1] [2] and one of the deadliest in Latin American history.
On 23 February 2021, 79 inmates were killed and several others were injured in riots that took place simultaneously in four prisons in Ecuador. Authorities gave gang rivalry in an overcrowded prison system as the cause. [1] The violence happened in prisons located in the Guayas, Azuay, and Cotopaxi provinces, which contain nearly 70% of the ...
The Litoral Penitentiary ( Spanish: Penitenciaría del Litoral ), known officially as Center for Social Rehabilitation of Men No. 1 of Guayaquil ( Spanish: Centro de Rehabilitación Social de Varones N. 1 de Guayaquil) [1] is the largest prison in Ecuador. [2] It is located 16.5 km (10.3 mi) from Vía a Daule, on the outskirts of Guayaquil. [3]
April 3, 2022 - A prison riot in Cuenca, a city in southern Ecuador, leaves at least 20 inmates dead. May 9, 2022 - Prison riots break out between members of rival gangs Los Lobos and R7, killing ...
Criminal gangs terrorise country as explosions rip across Ecuador. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
QUITO (Reuters) -All prison staff held by inmates at prisons in Ecuador amid a sharp uptick in violence had been freed by Saturday evening, the SNAI prisons agency said. The hostages, which SNAI ...
On 28 September 2021, a dispute between Los Lobos and Los Choneros in the Litoral Penitentiary, Guayaquil, led to a riot that killed 123 inmates and injured over 80, becoming the deadliest prison riot in Ecuador's history. [4] In that riot, members of the Los Tiguerones gang attacked inmates in pavilions 1 and 3 and beheaded five of them. [5 ...
Reporters at an Ecuadorian news show suddenly got front row seats to the story Tuesday, when a half-dozen heavily armed men broke into the studio, forced everyone down on threats of death and took ...