Simultaneous attacks killing 10 people and prison crisis plunge Ecuador into ‘internal war’

At least ten people diedincluding two officers of the National Police of Ecuador, and three have been injured in the context of the “internal armed conflict” declared by the Ecuadorian government, led by Daniel Noboa, because of the spiral of violence caused by the activity of ‘narcoterrorist’ groups.

Seventy people have been arrested in operations carried out to date at national level as a result of the to attack And “terrorist acts” registered in different parts of the country, police said.

In a statement on social networks, the police unveiled a preliminary balance of actions, including the release of three police officers kidnapped on Monday and released on Tuesday.

The Ecuadorian President, Daniel Noboadecided last Monday a Exception status throughout the country as a result of the violent action of organized crime groups, especially as a result of riots in about six prisons and the escape of prisoners considered very dangerous.

The wave of violence has led to fear in Peru and has led the government to state of emergency and order the deployment of the armed forces to strengthen the surveillance functions of the National Police (PNP) across the country northern border from the country.

Noboa without public appearance

The President of Ecuador has not appeared in public in recent hours, despite the severity of events in the country, although he headed an extraordinary security council whose resolutions were reported by the head of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces, Jaime Vela .

In addition to publishing the decree declaring an internal armed conflict on social networks, the president released on Tuesday afternoon an X-shaped photo showing the representatives of the three branches of government as they opened the Security Council at the Government Palace.

Simultaneous attacks and prison crisis

The country experienced a day of terror yesterday with the simultaneous attack of armed groups that frightened and attacked the population shopping centres, went out into the street and – while I was broadcasting live – broke into one television channel of Guayaquil, the country’s second city, which has become the epicenter of attacks by organized crime groups that authorities did not hesitate to describe as “terrorists.”

These are the keys to what has been experienced in the last few hours in a country that today is immersed in a kind of Within war and last October he elected Daniel Noboa president after an election campaign in which several candidates for freely elected positions were assassinated, including presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

The Ecuadorian president has ordered the armed forces to carry out military actions after a heavily armed commando occupied the public broadcaster TC Televisión in Guayaquil for several hours. riots in six prisons and other violent acts will be included Quito and a number of other cities.

Earlier, on Monday evening, Noboa had declared a state of emergency and Curfew for sixty days, after the ‘disappearance’ the day before of Adolfo Macías, alias ‘Fito’, the leader of the criminal gang Los Choneros, and the riots that broke out in six penitentiary centers in the country. The escape occurred as the government planned to transfer Macías to a maximum security prison.