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The dead were found hanging, asphyxiated, or broken in the stampede of terror, while outside, mothers and wives stood in silence, waiting for names that would end their last fragile hope.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ecuador\u2019s prisons have become command centers for the drug trade, transforming guards into targets and inmates into soldiers. Each massacre deepens public fear and erodes trust in the state\u2019s ability to govern its own institutions. Until power is wrested back from the criminal networks entrenched behind bars, these prisons will keep acting as both battlefield and factory for the violence tearing the country apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the concrete walls of Machala, the riot was not an isolated outburst but another eruption in a system corroded from within. 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