2024-04-17 11:11:09
SOCIEDAD
The state of emergency must be requested by the Ministry of Defense or the Interior to President Daniel Noboa.
Since April 6, the state of emergency decreed by President Daniel Noboa last January came to an end. With this, the restriction measures such as the curfew were eliminated, however, this Sunday night he issued a new decree in which he recognizes the persistence of an internal armed conflict.
Decree 218 indicates that there are organized armed groups that maintain hostilities according to reports from the Strategic Intelligence Center, an entity that will periodically carry out an individualized update of these.
Article 3 provides that various entities must fulfill various functions:
- Armed Forces: Carry out military operations to prevent and eradicate the activity of organized armed groups in the territory. This is framed in humanitarian and human law.
- National Police and Armed Forces: Operational and tactical deployment to neutralize armed attacks, threats or risks. Work will continue to preserve control of the National Penitentiary System.
- National Authority for Planning, Economy and Finance and Security: Coordination to establish multi-year budget programming on internal security, strategic intelligence system and counterintelligence.
The president also ordered that detention centers be declared security zones.
Studies and reports must be carried out that involve their planimetric survey, controls, inhibition or demolition of remotely piloted aircraft, signal inhibition and telecommunications access in the security areas of the centers; prohibition of the construction of tunnels, underground works, vertical and horizontal constructions, among others.
Article 8, on the other hand, contemplates that the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of the Interior may request the president to declare a state of emergency if the suspension or limitation of rights is required.
Source: The Universe