2024-01-11 07:29:00
The commander of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, Admiral Jaime Vela, together with the commander of the National Police, General César Zapata, announced the first actions carried out on a national scale within the framework of the state of “internal armed conflict” decreed by the president and stated that, in the last 24 hours, The agents killed five “terrorists” and arrested 329, allegedly linked to criminal organizations.
In addition, The Army rescued 41 people who were kidnapped and captured 25 prisoners who had escaped from different prisons in the country, all in more than 280 military operations for which 22,400 military personnel have been deployed nationwide, according to a statement. At the same time, in these last hours They seized 61 firearms418 ammunition of different calibers, 24 explosive devices, nine boats, 195 vehicles, nearly twenty communication equipment and 23 kilograms of “substances subject to control.”
However, according to official figures, it is worth noting that At least 139 prison officials remain kidnapped in five prisons in the country —Azuay, Cañar, Napo, Tungurahua and Cotopaxi—, and their state of health is unknown. “The National Police and Armed Forces continue to work jointly for the release of all personnel in penitentiary centers,” indicated the entity that manages Ecuador’s prisons. According to the local newspaper The universethis Wednesday Videos of prisoners hanging prison guides went viralbut no deaths have yet been confirmed, causing despair among officials and relatives.
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For his part, a judge from Ecuador ruled this Wednesday preventive detention for committing terrorism crimes to 11 of the 13 arrested for the seizure of the canal TC Television, which was assaulted by a group of hooded armed men in an attack framed in a wave of violence unleashed throughout the country. The other two detainees, minors between 16 and 26 years of age, were sent to a detention center. The crime of Terrorism in Ecuador carries a minimum sentence of 16 years in prison and a maximum of 26while in the case of minors a sentence of between four and eight years of confinement will be applied.
The Legislative Branch showed unanimous support for the president
The National Assembly of Ecuador showed this Wednesday its unanimous support for the country’s president, Daniel Noboa, and the measures decreed by his administration in security matters to “reestablish public order and citizen security.” “Unanimously with 135 votes, the Plenary Session of the National Assembly resolved to support the actions of the National Government in matters of security, as well as the intervention of the Armed Forces and National Police; also supports the president of Ecuador to counteract the prison crisis, insecurity and the internal armed conflict that the country is experiencing,” reads a statement from the organization.
For its part, The international community also showed its support for the president and to the Ecuadorian people, condemning the “criminal acts.” The member countries of Brasilia Consensusa mechanism to strengthen ties between South American countries, expressed their “most energetic rejection of the violence committed by groups related to organized crime” and conveyed “their explicit and unequivocal support and solidarity to the people and to the authorities of Ecuador, a member country of the consensus, in their fight once morest the actions of organized crime.”
“The Brasilia Consensus will unite efforts to combat in a coordinated manner this scourge that affects the entire region, under the principles of International Law and the internal laws of each South American country. We hope for a prompt restoration of security and public order within the framework of the rule of law and the current institutions in Ecuador, with attachment and respect for democracy and human rights,” reads a joint statement.
Patricia Bullrich assured that the Government is willing to send security forces to Ecuador: “This is a continental issue”
The order of the Government of Ecuador to establish the state of exception following the prison escape of the head of Los Choneros, José Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito”, unleashed chaos in a country that, for years, has suffered an unprecedented increase in insecurity due to the activity of armed groups. The spiral of violence, which has claimed the lives of at least ten people, including two police officers, led Noboa to declare, under decree, that Ecuador is experiencing an “internal armed conflict.”
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