Police commander General Victor Herrera speaks during a press conference in Guayaquil, Ecuador, January 10, 2024, where the police presented the detainees who stormed the TC Television studio during a live TV broadcast amid the wave of violence around the nation. Photo: OSV News/Vicente Gaibor del Pino, Reuters Amid an unprecedented wave of violence in Ecuador, the South American country’s bishops’ conference issued a statement asking the people to unite against the disturbance caused by criminal gangs, whose operations were defined as acts of “treason against the nation”. The incidents began after José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the criminal gang Los…
