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Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa ordered military operations on Tuesday against the countrys powerful criminal groups after hooded gunmen stormed a television studio and gangsters threatened to execute security forces and civilians. Noboa declared the country in a state of internal armed conflict just hours after gangsters declared war in an escalating security crisis sparked by the prison escape of one of Ecuadors most powerful criminal bosses. Long a peaceful haven sandwiched between top cocaine exporters Colombia and Peru, Ecuador has seen violence explode in recent years as enemy gan