PREVIEW: #Ecuador: Excerpt from a conversation re the Americas with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College about the fearful and strangely unreal event of a drug gang taking over a live TV broadcast of the news on Ecuador TV as the troubled gang-
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/explosions-kidnapping-police-mark-ecuador-state-emergency-2024-01-09/
1941 Ecuador during the war with Peru
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| 0:30.0 | This is John Bachelor speaking with Professor Avignellis of the U.S. Army War College about the Americas. |
| 0:36.2 | We came to Ecuador and this excerpt is the professor's observation of the violent events in Ecuador in these last hours and days, |
| 0:46.7 | an armed insurgency by drug gangs, one of which surged into a TV station controlled by the government |
| 0:57.0 | while he was broadcasting live news. |
| 0:59.0 | The professor describes the events and the motivation for this drug gang, to go on TV, to open |
| 1:06.7 | fire, to threaten death to the staff, spectacular moment on television, all Ecuador is at this point paralyzed with fear because |
| 1:17.6 | of the chaos. |
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