2024-08-24 01:30:08
President Daniel Noboa has made it clear throughout his nearly nine months in office that he has the guts. Especially when referring to organized crime.
If there is one thing that President Daniel Noboa likes to boast about, it is his bravery. It is no longer surprising to hear him mention that it is his adversaries who are afraid. The last episode in which he sought to highlight this supposed bravery was in Durán, on July 17, 2024.
Noboa arrived in this troubled canton with more than 1,000 police and military personnel, tanks, bulletproof vests and helmets, to send one more message to organized crime: “We will take Durán into our own hands and return it to its true and only owners: the families of Durán.”
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The President began to give more space to the discourse of the ‘hard hand’ since he went to the second round. On August 26, 2023, he already warned that “the fact that I am peaceful does not mean that I am a coward.”
Once in Carondelet, President Noboa said, in his own words, that it is “a terrible enemy to have.” And he constantly reiterates that he is making difficult decisions for the future of Ecuador, even though there are sectors that do not agree with the measures, because they see other options.
In any case, since the day of violence on January 9, 2023 and the subsequent declaration of the internal armed conflict, the Head of State clarified that “lukewarm governments are over,” after which he has further accentuated his image of rudeness.
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On January 22, the President even offered himself as a “shield” for the police and military who fight organized crime. He said that he would defend them against infamy, the same criminals and corruption.
And on April 2, he said he was not in office to “play dumb” about corruption and crime, as he said other leaders had done before. That same month, he insisted that “no one has had the courage to say their names or their location” and presented a list of military targets.
In his interviews with international media, he has even boasted of being the first to not give in to pressure from criminal groups and their accomplices at all levels of the State.
And he stressed that his duty was to take tough decisions, such as the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, to capture Jorge Glas. President Noboa explained that if the former vice president escaped, the citizens would see him as a weak leader. And he could not allow that.
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By: PRIMICIAS