At least eight people were killed and eight others injured in Ecuador during an armed attack in the southwestern city of Guayaquil, the third episode of violence in two days in the South American country. The police made this known. “Several armed individuals aboard a vehicle opened fire on a group of people” in a neighborhood in the south of the city, the authorities reported, explaining that “two people died instantly” and the others from their injuries. Once a haven of peace, Ecuador is ravaged by violence following becoming the main export country and collection point for cocaine produced in neighboring Peru and Colombia.
Ecuador creates crisis management committee
Faced with the violence that continues to shake Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa has ordered the creation of a Crisis Management Committee. It is a “high-level governing body”, which will be able to take strategic decisions in the face of situations that threaten national security, and coordinate the response at different levels of government. The decree establishing the Committee provides for the management and use of intelligence to anticipate and mitigate possible risks, new secure communication channels, and the adoption of measures that contribute to the safety of the population and critical assets during emergency situations. crisis. Despite the extension of the state of emergency and the militarization of the prisons, the tensions in the country do not stop: in the night between Wednesday and Thursday there was a new revolt with three deaths in the regional prison of Guayaquil. This is the same prison from which the dangerous leader of the criminal organization Los Choneros, Adolfo Masias, alias “Fito”, escaped last January.
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2024-04-02 12:17:34
