Thousands of military and police officers raided several prisons in Ecuador on Sunday in search of weapons, ammunition and explosives and to restore order after a week of incidents and detentions of more than a hundred officials, amid an unprecedented spiral of violence in the Andean country. The operation comes a day after President Daniel Noboa and the official body that controls the prisons announced the release of nearly 170 prison officers and administrative staff who had been held by inmates for six days. One prison officer died in the south of the country. Some 1,100 uniformed members o…