Tag: drug gangs

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 19:27 UTC

  Ecuador: President Lasso says drug traffic gangs behind prison riots

  

  Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso Monday said his country was under attack by drug trafficking gangs, which are allegedly trying to take over the country's prisons, where riots have cost the lives of hundreds of inmates over the past few months.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Inmates of Brazilian prison riots transferred to other jails; drug gangs rivalry and fighting out of control

  

  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.