War against cartels: Ecuador has one of the highest homicide rates

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Ecuador was once one of the safest countries in Latin America, but in the last 10 years it's had one of the highest murder rates in the region. Since taking office last year, President Daniel Noboa declared war against the drug cartels, and recently won a referendum to impose harsher laws.

But doing so wont be easy, as Al Jazeera's Teresa Bo reports from Guayaquil