QUITO: Inmates in six Ecuadoran prisons have released the 50 guards and seven police officers who had been taken hostage in the South American country's latest spasm of narcotics-related mayhem, the state prison institute said on Friday.
BODY CHECK A soldier frisks a man on an access road to the Turi prison in the city of Cuenca, central Ecuador on Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. AFP PHOTO