Guayaquil, Ecuador
CNN
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The convoy moves fast — half a dozen unmarked pickups and SUVs, plates ripped off, weaving and speeding through traffic. The vehicles cross into bus lanes and straddle road dividers, but the other drivers barely react as they pass, numb — it seems — to this kind of chaos.
The convoy’s passengers suit up, adding tactical vests over their clothes, ski masks over their heads. If not for POLICIA emblazoned across their body armor, anyone would think this was a crew of masked bandits, not the undercover law enforcement officers they are.
The vehicles screech into a neighborhood in Pascuales, a gang stronghold in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s…
