2024-04-23 03:47:45
The director of a prison in Ecuador was murdered this Sunday, when the country was celebrating national voting day for the referendum called by the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, to carry out reforms to promote the fight against organized crime. attract investments and create jobs.
The victim is Cosme Parrales, who served as director of the El Rodeo prison, located in the city of Portoviejo, which belongs to the coastal province of Manabí, as confirmed in a statement by the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty ( SNAI), the State penitentiary agency.
According to local media, Parrales, who had assumed the position of director of the prison five days ago, was shot at by alleged hitmen in a cevicheria where he was having lunch in the town of Jipijapa, near Portoviejo.
This is the third murder in five days of an authority in Ecuador, after the murders of two mayors of municipalities in the south of the country that have illegal mining activities in their territories were recorded on Wednesday and Friday.
The murder of Parrales broke the tranquility of the voting day, which until then had taken place without major incidents, beyond those caused by the heavy rains that fell in the last hours in different parts of the country, which prevented them from being opened at least three voting centers.
Source: Infobae.
2024-04-23 03:47:45