Ecuador's Lasso declares state of emergency across prison system

QUITO (Reuters) – 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, the government said on Tuesday, following a wave of violence over the weekend. Read full story

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