MARCOS PIN/AFP/AFP The sweat-and-salsa-infused nightlife that was once the beating heart of Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, has fallen silent, with bars, restaurants, and nightclubs pulling down ...

A waitress works during closing time at a restaurant in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where local mafias have violently shut down the party in the traditional red-light ...

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - The sweat-and-salsa-infused nightlife that was once the beating heart of Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil, has fallen silent, with bars, restaurants, and nightclubs pulling down ...

As Ecuador has become an epicenter of the global cocaine trade -- and the port city of Guayaquil a major thoroughfare -- cartels and mafias have chewed through the city's lively 'Zonas Rosas' -- ...