{"id":23294,"date":"2026-11-08T20:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23294"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:28:59","slug":"in-ecuador-mayors-and-judges-live-in-constant-fear-and-have-to-always-have-constant-security-drug-gangs-regularly-assassinate-government-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23294","title":{"rendered":"In Ecuador, mayors and judges live in constant fear and have to always have constant security. Drug gangs regularly assassinate government officials."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ecuador, mayors and judges live in constant fear and have to always have constant security. Drug gangs regularly assassinate government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ecuador: Inside the rising war in Guayaquil\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4tbvxApJtVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ecuador, mayors and judges live in constant fear and have to always have constant security. Drug gangs regularly assassinate government officials. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4tbvxApJtVg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[174,744,431,986,439,1929,1224,847,989],"class_list":["post-23294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assassination","tag-crime","tag-democracy","tag-drug-cartels","tag-drugs","tag-ecuador","tag-gang-violence","tag-violence","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23295,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23294\/revisions\/23295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}