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By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia GUAYAQUIL (Reuters) – At least 68 prisoners were killed and more than two dozen injured in overnight violence at Ecuador’s Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, the government said on Saturday, in what officials characterize as fights among rival gangs. The penitentiary, located in the southern city of Guayaquil, is the same prison where 119 inmates were killed in late September in the country’s worst incident of prison violence in recent history. The government has blamed disputes between drug trafficking gangs for control of prisons for the violence. Dozens …