Military and police forces launch an incursion into a sector of the Socio Vivienda neighborhood, in Guayaquil, targeting the mountainous area in search of weapons and criminals hiding in the terrain. The operation led to the capture of six men who had taken refuge there. Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa announced a preemptive amnesty for security forces fighting drug cartels in the violence-wracked port of Guayaquil, where 22 people were killed in clashes between rival gangs. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES