Ecuador is getting interesting. President issued a National Security Directive, including a mandatory curfew. Gangs said nah.... Kidnapped 4 cops, some bombings, usual shit. But this is not.
Heavily armed gangsters have stormed the studio of a major television station in Ecuador during a live broadcast as criminal groups launched a series of seemingly coordinated attacks across the South American country and its prison system was plunged into chaos.
Toting pistols, machine guns and sticks of dynamite, the masked criminals stormed the headquarters of the TC Televisión network in Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, at about 2pm local time.
The newspaper El Universo said panicked reporters and camera operators flooded messaging groups with pleas for help as the outlaws rampaged through the building. “They want to kill the lot of us. Help us,” one message read. The news program, El noticiero, was reportedly on air when its studio was overrun by more than 20 men with their faced covered, and armed with pistols, shotguns and automatic weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/ecuador-gangs-wave-terror-state-of-emergency