In Ecuador, a state of emergency and curfews have been declared in two provinces after a series of attacks that killed five police officers. Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso said the attacks by increasingly powerful drug gangs were a declaration of war. Reporter Carolina Loza Leon tells host Carol Hills that people throughout Ecuador are feeling fearful.
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