A little after 2pm on Tuesday, Jorge Rendón and a colleague were reading the news live on Ecuador’s TC Televisión network when they learned that the scuffle they could hear in the corridor outside the studio wasn’t a scuffle.
“We get the producer in our earpieces and he says: ‘Please be careful. They’re forcing their way in. They’re robbing us. They’re attacking us.’” Seconds later, Rendón, a broadcast journalist based in Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, heard the assailants breaking through the studio’s thick, reinforced doors.
