The measure, which allows for the deployment of soldiers in the street, was announced for a period of 60 days for seven of the country's 24 provinces, according to a government decree.

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The South American country filed a case Monday with the court in The Hague "for Mexico's violations of a series of international obligations" for granting Glas asylum at its embassy in Quito, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

The "yes" vote in favor of extradition received 65 percent of valid ballots, while "no" received 25 percent, according to a quick count of results, the electoral council said at a news conference.

A team has hung 32 traps made of green nets, each baited with rotting fish and fermented bananas. They are meant to blend in with the forest canopy. Their pungent odor clearly does not.

A government decree ordering workers to stay home went largely ignored, with buses running as usual in the capital Quito, where traffic lights were out in some areas due to blackouts.

Mexico filed a lawsuit against Ecuador Thursday at the International Court of Justice over the storming of its embassy in Quito, saying it wanted the South American country "suspended" from the United Nations.

Glas, 54, was admitted to the hospital on Monday after he refused to eat for 24 hours while detained at the Guayaquil maximum security prison, officials said, where he was taken after being captured last Friday.

Opposition lawmakers are also seeking to impeach foreign and interior ministers over Jorge Glas's arrest inside the Mexican embassy

Glas, 54, was in a stable condition at a naval hospital in Guayaquil, the SNAI authority said in a statement, and will be kept under observation.

The Ecuadorian police raided Mexico's embassy in Quito on Friday to arrest former VP Jorge Glas

This incident was perpetrated on Sunday around 7 p.m. in the southern neighborhood of Guasmo as gunmen arrived at a pedestrian street in a grey Chevrolet Spark, where people were engaged in sports activities.

It marked the latest prison violence in Guayaquil -- the port city that has become a dangerous hub for cocaine exports to neighboring countries.

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The escalation comes as other countries in the region are also experiencing a deterioration of security conditions

Venezuelans living in Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Brazil have, on average, higher levels of education than locals

Economy Minister Juan Carlos Vega said that the government will also add 15% VAT (Value Added Tax) from April onwards.

Ecuador was planning to send six Russian military helicopters, long-range rocket launchers and air defense systems to the United States.

Traces of an Amazonian "lost city" were first discovered in 1978, but the full extent of what is now believed to be the largest and oldest such urban expanse were only revealed last year with the help of laser mapping.

President Daniel Noboa announced last month that Quito had agreed to exchange Russian military equipment that had become "scrap metal" for new US weapons worth around $200 million.

With seven of its nine judges voting in favor, the country's Constitutional Court opened the door for doctors to help an untreatable patient die without going to jail.

Daniel Noboa said the elections, set to take place this year but still without a clear date, "won't be free"

Their significant territorial presence and diversity of funding sources are the main reasons why the conflict can become a protracted one

Police in violence-plagued Ecuador arrested 68 people Sunday who had attempted to take over a hospital in the country's southwest in the midst of a "war" between drug gangs and the security forces.

The wife and three children of "Fito" Macías were in a gated community in the province of Córdoba

César Suárez also investigated drug-trafficking cases. He was shot while in a car in Guayaquil

The Guayas Estuary, with its 28 ports, is the heart of the violence-torn country's economy.

Nearly 180 officials were being held hostage inside the prisons following a security crisis catalyzed by the escape of a powerful drug lord

Only two CONMEBOL teams can qualify to the Paris 2024 soccer tournament; Brazil has won the last two gold medals