Guayaquil, Ecuador, Oct 24, 2025 (AFP) - Guayaquil mayor blames Ecuador's president as drug violence spirals

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Car bombings, massacres, extortion, and a security force outgunned by drug gangs: the mayor of Ecuador's most violent city says residents are living through a "collective psychosis" -- and suggests the president's hardline policies bear some of the blame. Aquiles Alvarez, 41, runs Guayaquil -- a port city of nearly three million people -- while wearing sneakers and an electronic ankle bracelet. Prosecutors are investigating him for alleged fuel......

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