Crime has taken a sadistic turn in Ecuador, where kidnappers now regularly amputate the fingers of their vi
For decades, Ecuador was a refuge of peace wedged in a dangerous region. But these days, it increasingly resembles nearby Peru and Colombia, two huge producers of cocaine with violent criminal histories.
Social media lit up in April when an x-ray of a hand with no fingers made the rounds. The image was of an Ecuadoran migrant to the United States ensnared in a kidnapping during a vacation back home. The port of Guayaquil, with some three million residents, has become a hotbed of violence, with car bombs, prison massacres, mutilated bodies hanging from bridges and kidnappings.The bloodshed has not yet soared to the levels once reached in Colombia or Mexico at the height of narco violence but “we are traveling along a similar road,” security analyst Carla Alvarez says.
Most kidnappings and extortions are the work of common criminals, bus robbers or low-profile thieves. Those held for ransom are often kept in bathrooms, with hands bound and in constant terror, as crime gangs negotiate with their loved ones.
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