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ene 17, 2024

On Monday, January 8^th, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency due gang related violence.

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This declaration comes after gunmen stormed a TV station during a broadcast. The assailants forced the people into the studio. The police would later arrest the gunmen and free the TV staff. According to local media, some of the hostage takers were 16 years old. The two-month President challenged the gangs to fight the army. TV broadcaster Jorge Rendón said that the hostage takers wanted the media to give their message.

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The same day, gunmen took as hostages one hundred and fifty-eight prison guards and twenty prison workers. On Tuesday, eleven people would be released. Nine officers were kidnapped during the last week. The hostage takers forced one of the policemen to read a statement to Daniel Noboa at gunpoint.

“You declared a state of emergency. We declare police, civilians and soldiers to be a spoils of war”,

read the policeman. The same statement threatened to kill anyone found in the streets after 11pm.

“Be brave, fight the soldiers”,

he said on an interview in radio, accusing the gangs of targeting civilians an unarmed prison gangs. Noboa also stated that Ecuador would start to deport foreign criminals in his country. There are 1500 Colombian citizens in Equatorian prisons.

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After this declaration, more than 300 people have been arrested. Also, last week registered at least fourteen people killed. President Noboa declared twenty-two of these gangs as “terrorists” last Tuesday, including Los Choneros, Los Lobos and Los Tiguerones. He also mentioned that about 20 thousand criminals are currently involved. On Tuesday, Noboa ordered the army to “neutralize” criminal gangs after the storming on the TV station.

The latest rampage of violence comes after the police tried to transfer “Fito”, an important gang leader. His real name is Adolfo Macías Villarreal. They attempted to move him to a more secure place. However, when the police entered his cell last Sunday, January 7^th, they found out he had escaped. When inmates in other prisons heard of his escape, they started riots in their jails. In one of them, another important gang leader also escaped. He is Fabricio Colón Pico, and is a leader of the Lobos gang.

Fabrisio Colón Pico, head of Los Lobos. Source: DD Geopolitics

It seems that these violent acts were a response to Noboa’s efforts to stop drug trafficking, specially locking up leaders in high-security prisons. The President made public the designs for two new facilities on Thursday. During his presidential campaign, Noboa promised to retake control of the prisons. Noboa ordered a curfew that will last sixty days and will mobilize to keep order. The curfew will go from 11 am to 5pm, and meetings and actions that could threaten public order will be restricted.

Ecuador borders Colombia and Peru, two of the largest cocaine producers.

Much of the violence is concentrated in the port city of Guayaquil.

Among the consequences of the insecurity in the country, China has closed its embassy and consulates. This is harmful for Ecuador’s economy, because Beijing is one of its main investors. The levels of violence in Ecuador have risen after years of presence of drug cartels which export cocaine to Europe and the US via its ports. Many of them are Mexican drug cartels, attracted by the situation. The gangs are associated with the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels.

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