Americans say their families in Ecuador are trapped by fear amid the war on drug gangs
Mucarsell-Powell was born in Guayaquil and arrived in the U.S. with her mother and sisters when she was 14 in the 1970s, when military dictators ruled the country. When she was 24, her father was killed by criminal gun violence in Ecuador. Despite witnessing tanks in the streets when she was…
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