QUITO: Ecuadorians vote in a referendum Sunday on proposed tougher measures to fight gang-related crime as the country copes with an alarming rise in violence that has seen two mayors killed this week.
The once-peaceful South American country has struggled with a terrorizing wave of violence blamed on gangs with links to transnational cartels using its ports to ship drugs to the United States and Europe.
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