Eight people have been arrested on charges that they were involved in forcibly recruiting Ecuadoreans for armed groups, the country's prosecutor's office said on Thursday.
The prosecution said on its Twitter account the eight were arrested during simultaneous raids in the provinces of Imbabura, Pichincha and El Oro. It accused them of "human trafficking and recruitment for guerrilla groups outside the law."
They said the groups approached communities in the Andean provinces of Cotopaxi and Chimborazo and in Ecuador's Amazon region to recruit members under false pretenses.
