2024-01-12 22:43:00
New balance of the Armed Forces of Ecuador: 59 terrorists apprehended and 1 civil servant released (Armed Forces of Ecuador)
The Armed Forces of Ecuador released a new balance of the operations carried out during the last hours and reported that 59 terrorists were apprehended. Likewise, they celebrated the release of a civil servant and promised to continue working to ensure that the 170 hostages in six prisons throughout the country can return to their homes.
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However, the Police were already able to verify the status of 75 Penitentiary Security Agents and are keeping the situation under control in the Machala prison, which, until then, was in the hands of criminals, although the death of one inmate was confirmed.
The maneuvers, ordered by President Daniel Noboa, in compliance with the Executive Decree that declared 22 gangs terrorists, were carried out both in the coastal area and in the mountains and in the eastern region of the country.
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Thus, in Ciudad Verde, in Santo Domingo, police officers raided a home where they found three pistols, two revolvers, a shotgun, a repeater, five machine guns, 2,559 ammunition and two motorcycles. There they also found three terrorists from the GDO R7 and two others inside Santo Domingo.
Some of the weapons and substances seized in the raids of the last few hours (Armed Forces of Ecuador)
In Portoviejo, Manabí, five terrorists from the Los Lobos gang were arrested, who had in their possession a firearm, two motorcycles, four Motorola radios, 25 cartridges, three cell phones, two cameras, 700 doses of substances subject to control and a backpack.
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In different areas of Esmeraldas, seven terrorists were arrested and 23 weapons and several kilos of drugs were seized.
For its part, one of the most successful operations took place in Cotopaxi, with the arrest of 15 people possibly linked to the Los Lobos gang.
In Loja, Azuay, Napo and Morona Santiago, the Police found new items during the raids, such as 12 gas cylinders, 1,035 gallons of fuel, a boat, several bags of sawdust, stones, and USD 1,488. In the second, in addition, the release of an official from the N1 recruitment center was achieved and it was confirmed that there are 49 penitentiary agents and eight civil servants hostage there alone.
The Police seized 12 gas cylinders and 1,035 gallons of fuel that, it is believed, would be used for more explosive attacks and car bombs (Armed Forces of Ecuador)
In El Oro, meanwhile, the authorities managed to enter Prison N1 and verified the presence of Armed Forces personnel as well as 16 detained prison guides.
While the local Executive squeezes its resources to fight this battle against narcoterrorism, the United States announced collaboration with the Latin American country by sending the head of the Southern Command, General Laura Richardson, and other senior anti-narcotics and diplomatic officials, to examine and plan together with Noboa a strategy that is effective in this context.
Thus, “in the coming weeks” this delegation will arrive in the country to “explore with their Ecuadorian counterparts ways in which we can work together more effectively to confront the threat posed by transnational criminal organizations.” In addition, they announced that intelligence sharing and cooperation will be increased to combat malicious cyber activity, and prison reforms will be studied.
Regarding the latter, this Friday, Noboa unveiled the plans for the two prisons he plans to build, very similar to those already operational in Mexico and El Salvador, which made it possible to combat the gang war. The idea is to locate them in the Amazonian province of Pastaza and in the coastal province of Santa Elena, and they will have a capacity for 736 inmates.
As in Nayib Bukele’s prisons, these spaces will have cell phone and satellite signal inhibitors, electronic systems with cutting-edge technology, digital and analog access control, triple perimeter security and electrical self-generation.
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