2024-04-21 21:03:14
The director of a prison Ecuador He was murdered this Sunday, in the middle of the voting day for the referendum called by the president Daniel Noboato remove forward reforms to boost the fight once morest organized crime, attract investment and create jobs.
The victim is Cosme Parrales, who served as director of the El Rodeo prison.located in the city of Portoviejo, which belongs to the coastal province of Manabí, as confirmed in a statement by the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the State penitentiary agency.
According to local media, Parrales, who had assumed the position of director of the prison five days, was attacked by gunfire by alleged hitmen in a cevicheria where he was having lunch in the town of Jipijapa, near Portoviejo.
This is the third murder in five days of an authority in Ecuador, following the murders of two mayors of municipalities in the south of the country that have illegal mining activities in their territories.
The murder of Parrales broke the tranquility of voting daywhich until then was developing without major incidentsbeyond those caused by the heavy rains that fell in recent hours in different parts of the country, which prevented at least three voting centers from opening.
The management and security of prisons are part of the eleven questions of the plebiscite called by Noboa for Ecuadorians to speak out on the guidelines less than a year before the new general elections, scheduled for February 2025.
One of the Questions arise that the Armed Forces be responsible for controlling access to prisonsepicenter of the violence crisis that is plaguing Ecuador and which has led it to be one of the countries with the most homicides in Latin America, with a rate of 45 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023.
He also proposes that the military supports the police in its operations once morest organized crime permanently, without the need to issue states of exception, such as the one issued by Noboa at the beginning of the year, with which he also declared the “internal armed conflict” once morest criminal gangs.
With this measure, he militarized the prisons to wrest control of them from criminal gangs, who had managed to enter and store large arsenals of firearms and explosives inside, often used in the massacres recorded inside the prisons due to disputes between rival groups and that since 2020 have left around 500 prisoners murdered.
The Noboa referendum also points to other measures such as weapons seized from criminals being used to equip state forces, among other measures such as allowing the extradition of Ecuadorians who are required by the Justice of other countries.
Likewise, the Ecuadorians vote if they agree to establish a system of courts specialized in constitutional lawrecognize international arbitrations in any jurisdiction as a method to attract foreign investment and allow temporary hourly contracts, with the idea of encouraging job creation.
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