Ecuadorean Anti-Drug Lieutenant Colonel slain

Ecuadorean Lieutenant Colonel Porfirio Cedeño was murdered by hitmen near a Guayaquil prison. The commanding officer of the Armed Forces’ anti-drug trafficking Special Operations Group took at least 20 shots, according to local media.

Cedeño was in charge of military operations against drug trafficking and mafias hitting the city of Durán, neighboring Guayaquil. The area is considered a center of growing criminal activity in Ecuador.

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