Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dec 23, 2025 (AFP) - 'Help me, I'm dying': inside Ecuador's TB-ridden gang-plagued prisons

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In gang-plagued Ecuador, being sent to prison is increasingly a death sentence, whatever the crime. In a bid to free the country from the clutches of drug traffickers -- some of them operating from their jail cells -- President Daniel Noboa sent the military into 19 prisons in January 2024 to restore order. The takeover not only failed to stop gruesome gang massacres in the country's overcrowded penitentiaries, but it also worsened humanitarian c......

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