Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 18 January 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, how did Ecuador become the most dangerous country in Latin America? |
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| 1:29.7 | episode. I'd been in where I'd been in where I'd been in where I killed for just a few minutes over 24 hours when I came across the first murder scene. |
| 1:48.8 | The Guardians Tom Phillips arrived in this once peaceful Port City to report on a wave of violence that has |
| 1:54.7 | Ecuadorians under siege. |
| 1:58.6 | We pulled up at a street corner there were dozens and dozens of people standing around a yellow police line. |
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