Ecuador: Youngest mayor shot - wave of violence shakes the country. 27-year-old politician Brigitte García was found dead in a car.
She is not the first Ecuadorian representative to be killed. Criminal gangs have recently had violent clashes in the country's prisons and taken guards hostage. The South American country is hit by aWave of violence. The authorities attribute this to drug trafficking. President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency in January due to the chaotic conditions in the nation's prisons.