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Added on the 19/01/2024 16:57:08 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Military and police guard an air base in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil where the wife and children of Ecuadoran fugitive Adolfo Macias, the drug lord known as "Fito," are being held after being expelled from Argentina. IMAGES
The trial of Colombian drug lord Henry de Jesus Lopez Londono starts in Buenos Aires. IMAGES
Convoy transporting arrested former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas leaves prosecutor's office in Quito. Ecuadoran authorities stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, who had been granted political asylum there, prompting Mexico to sever diplomatic ties after the "violation of international law". 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
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his fellow South American leaders hold a summit at Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia aimed at strengthening ties in a region where left-wing governments are newly back in style. IMAGES
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).