Residents of Durán await security results

2024-08-27 14:19:38

The inhabitants of this canton of Guayas hope that the actions of the Government of Daniel Noboa will be concrete and not be temporary.

The citizens of the canton Duran, in Guayas They expect the security operations to take effect. They do so after the president Daniel Noboa announced a comprehensive intervention in the city, considered one of the most violent in Ecuador and the world.

On Wednesday, July 15, 2024, the leader He said that he will allocate 1,100 police and military personnel to the canton. In addition, he will activate the social area of ​​the Government to improve care in health, educationthe assistance con bonds and the job creation.

Crime was quick to respond to the president’s announcement, which came to Duran aboard a tankette and equipped with bulletproof vest and military helmetOn the morning of Thursday, July 16, a young man was murdered by hitmen in The Recessone of the most dangerous areas of the city.

Violence, one of Durán’s evils

According to data from the National Police, In the first half of 2024, 234 violent deaths were recorded in DuranThis number represented a growth of 280% compared to the 68 registered in the first six months of 2023.

Added to this is the kidnapping, extortion and micro-trafficking, This last crime leaves a million dollars a month for the mafias, according to a report by the OUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for the Andean Region (UNODC).

The intervention announced by Noboa It is not the first time that a government has offered Durana city that has experienced the last two years between states of emergency, curfews and other types of restrictions.

“President Daniel (Noboa) left and with him all the military and police left, I haven’t seen a single one,” he says. Pedroa taxi driver who prefers to omit his last name for security reasons.

“On Monday they will not even know where Durán is,” he said, explaining that nothing had happened during previous interventions.

He agrees with him Sofia Mitea housewife. “Yesterday (Wednesday) while the president was there, helicopters flew over my house and the babies’ school. Now there is nothing there,” she says.

Despite having the river as a natural border, only 58% of the 303,910 inhabitants have access to drinking water, according to figures from the National Population Census. The rest are supplied by tankers, who charge up to six dollars to fill a plastic tank.

The study also revealed that only 36.9% of households have sewage service.

The rest of the population uses septic tanks. “This is the land of oblivion,” says Eduardo Tene, a mechanic who arrived with his parents from Chimborazo 35 years ago, when he was a child. “There is no water, no sewage system, the public services are poor, what can you expect from a town that lives in abandonment, from a youth that has no hope,” he reflects.By: