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Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil, the nerve center of the government's war on drug gangs. IMAGES
Images published by Ecuador's Armed Forces showing hundreds of military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil. Security forces "carry out a new intervention in the Centro de Privación de Libertad #Guayas, controlling the external and internal perimeter of the penitentiary center," the Armed Forces announces on X. IMAGES
Dozens of military and police inspect vehicles on an avenue leading to the center of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, after the government and drug mafias declared war on each other. The small South American country has been plunged into crisis after years of growing control by transnational cartels who use its ports to ship cocaine to the United States and Europe. IMAGES
The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once-powerful Mexican government minister who oversaw his country's war on drug trafficking and now charged with facilitating the smuggling of narcotics, opens in New York. The 54-year-old is the highest-ranking Mexican official to be charged in New York federal prosecutors' extensive pursuit of alleged drug traffickers from Central and South America and their ministerial accomplices. IMAGES
German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann qualifies Russian strikes on Ukraine's energy supplies as "war crimes," after a meeting between G7 justice ministers concerning war crimes in Ukraine. "People are left in their homes, in a winter that could possibly reach -30 degrees; then this is a terrible war crime. Winter is used as a weapon," he states. SOUNDBITE
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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