Transporters threaten to hold protests after new massacre on the country’s roads

by times news cr

2024-08-22 00:48:26

He murder of five people in a bus interprovincialon the road Babahoyo – San Juanin the province of The Riversthrew Gasoline to the relationship of Government with the carriers.

Hoy They threatened con radicalize las protests for the untenable criminal violence in the ways. Drivers and owners of units question the Executive for the lack of results of the operatives control of the public force.

Last Tuesday the National Federation of Public Passenger Transport Cooperatives of Ecuador, FENACOTIP, with withdrawal of the safety table with the delegates of the Executive, because it ensures that the controls son insufficient to stop murders, thefts, extortions y kidnappings to the carriers y passengers

“There is a police and military presence, but either the strategy or the lack of a more forceful policy on the issue is insufficient. This is a situation that we now demand in a more radical way.”

Next Thursday July 25thin the National Assembly of Transporters which will be held in Quitowill decide whether to call for a national standstill of all the federations that bring together 278 thousand members.

From the July 11thhe Government ordered the police already the Armed forces to execute joint operations of control y patrol, las 24 hoursin the ways considered more dangerous of the country.

He Government does not has done comment any about the warningThey limit themselves to saying that the dialogue with maintains, and the security block confirmed that 1,500 uniformed personnel are mobilized in the road axes conflicts in seven provinces: Saint Dominic of the Tsáchilas, Los Rios, Manabi, Guayas, Saint Helena, El Oro, Esmeraldas.

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