Since October 31, Ecuador has been living a night of terror that never ends. On that day, the government of President Guillermo Lasso announced the transfer of at least 515 detainees from the prison of Litoral, in the south-west, to other establishments in the center of the country.
But while massacres in prisons are recurrent and have killed more than 400 people in two years, the operation has generated a revolt in the penitentiary center in the port of Guayaquil, located on the Pacific coast, epicenter of the violence and hub drug trafficking.
This revolt has spread outside, where “this decision led to nearly a dozen bombings and attacks” against police, says the media Plan V, which reports at least five agents and one civilian dead during the offensive.
A first on this scale in this country wedged between Colombia and Peru, the main producers of cocaine in the world, where gangs such as