2024-01-14 01:55:00
“I think the way we should solve the problems here is the Ecuadorian way, not the Salvadoran way,” Noboa insisted.
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, distanced himself from the methods of his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, in his fight once morest drug gangs, who undertook a new attack in the South American country that left 18 dead in six days.
“Ecuador has a different reality. It is a multicultural country, it has different problems, some are similar, others are different and I think we have a different way of thinking,” said the president in statements to the BBC and released by the Communication Secretariat of The presidency.
In the style of Bukele, Noboa declared war this week on regarding twenty mafia organizations, with some 20,000 members who have spread terror since Sunday with prison riots, prison guards taken hostage by prisoners and attacks with explosives.
Likewise, it will build two “super maximum” security prisons with capacity for more than 3,000 people, with the aim of isolating the most violent inmates, within its plan to assume control of penitentiaries converted into operations centers for drug trafficking. drugs to the United States and Europe. It also plans to establish prison ships at sea, for the same purpose.
“I think the way we should solve the problems here is the Ecuadorian way, not the Salvadoran way,” insisted Noboa, a self-proclaimed center-left and supported by right-wing forces.
The Ecuadorian president is often compared to Bukele, criticized by human rights organizations for his arbitrary detentions and authoritarianism.
It has imprisoned more than 73,000 suspected criminals under a controversial state of emergency. Images of hundreds of tattooed, barefoot, chained, and bare-chested inmates have been released by Bukele himself and have become his hallmark. Some 7,000 innocent people were captured and released following spending up to several months in prison.
“We are very strict once morest terrorism, corruption, but we also think regarding growth. Growth of society, growth of services, growth of commerce and the economy,” said Noboa.
“We cannot focus on just one thing (fighting crime), and I think that is something that I would like to differentiate from El Salvador,” added the Ecuadorian leader, in power since November.
Given the recent wave of violence and pressure from drug traffickers once morest the State, Noboa assured that he will not give in: “I believe we are going to win and I will not stop fighting until we achieve it,” he said.
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