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Since January 7, the date of the escape of a powerful drug trafficker, the country has suffered a series of acts aimed at sowing terror. According to the latest report from the authorities, at least 19 people were killed.
Published on 01/14/2024 10:45 Updated on 01/14/2024 12:54
Reading time: 1 min A soldier stands guard in Quito (Ecuador), on January 13, 2024, while the country is in a “state of emergency” following the prison escape of a powerful drug trafficker. (AFP)
All the hostages, i.e. 136 people, who remained held by mutineers in Ecuadorian prisons were released during the night of Saturday January 13 to Sunday January 14, announced the Ecuadorian prison administration. “This night, security protocols and the joint action of the police and the national army allowed the release of all the hostages who were held in different prisons in the country”she explains in a press release. “Congratulations to the patriotic, professional and courageous work of the armed forces, the national police and the SNAI”the Ecuadorian prison administration, reacted immediately on the chef de l’Etat, Daniel Noboa.
Images released by police showed the guards, including many women, in tears, exhausted and supported by their colleagues shortly after their release. For a week since their ordeal lasted, these same hostages, under threat from mutineers armed with knives or firearms, regularly called on the authorities for help and restraint, according to videos regularly broadcast on social networks. At least two of them, one of whom was hanged, were executed by the mutineers.
Since January 7, the date of the escape from Guyaquil prison of Adolfo Macias, a powerful drug trafficker nicknamed “Fito”, Ecuador has suffered a wave of mutinies with hostage-taking and attacks against the police. and other acts aimed at sowing terror. At least 19 people were killed, according to the latest official report. Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency and ordered the army to neutralize these criminal gangs, now considered “terrorists”.
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