Brutal prison violence, a drug lord's escape and a nationwide curfew - what's happening in Ecuador?
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The brazen spectacle of hooded gunmen bursting onto a live TV set - as chaos rules in the country's prisons - has once again thrown Ecuador's security crisis into the spotlight.
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