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Ecuadoran police, raiding a drug den, cautiously inspect an altar to Santa Muerte—a Mexican "death saint" embraced by local gangs as their talisman—while wearing sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil.

In the early hours of August 14, Ecuador’s police and prosecutors deployed one of the most significant security operations of recent years in and around Durán, a coastal municipality that has become an epicenter of violence in the country.