In just twenty hours between September 16 and 17, ten people were murdered in the cities of Guayaquil, Durán, and Samborondón in Ecuador's Guayas province.
On September 19, prosecutor Édgar Escobar was "shot in front of the La Merced prosecutor's office building" in Guayaquil; more than 1,000 violent deaths have already been recorded in the three cities this year through mid-September.
In light of this violence, the government of Guillermo Lasso decided on September 13 to extend the state of emergency in these cities for another thirty days until mid-October.
The measure was . . .
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