Tag: Ecuador
two suspects arrested in investigation into prosecutor César Suarez’s murder
Police arrested two men on Thursday suspected of murdering an anti-mafia prosecutor in Guayaquil. A crime which shows that the government is still far from having restored order in the…
President Noboa refines his security strategy
For years, Ecuadorian prisons have been under the control of armed gangs who regularly carry out massacres between rival gangs. These prisons are veritable schools of crime because new inmates…
When the cartel boss “Fito” disappeared from prison, Ecuador descended into chaos – this is what we know about the state of emergency and the drug war | Foreign countries
Ecuador’s drug lords launched a brutal campaign after the government declared war on the cartels. Drug boss “Fito” apparently escaped during a prison transfer. Hundreds of soldiers patrol the streets…
Three questions about the wave of violence in Ecuador
unsaveSave share-arrowShare expand-left full screen Soldiers patrol the streets of Quito, Ecuador. Photo: Dolores Ochoa/AP/TT Several people have been killed, criminal gangs have been labeled terrorists and, according to the…
Drug trafficking, mutinies, hostage-taking on TV… Ecuador on the edge of the abyss – L’Express
The security situation is considered very worrying by the United States. The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa declared, Tuesday January 9, his country in a state of “internal armed conflict”…
Gunmen storm TV broadcast in Ecuador
It was around 21:00, Swedish time, that several men in balaclavas stormed the live broadcast that took place in a TV studio in Guayaquil. The men were seen waving rifles,…
The television broadcast was interrupted after armed people stormed the studio in Ecuador – a state of emergency was declared in the country on Monday | Foreign countries
Noboa, who came to power in November, has promised to quell the violence related to the drug trade. Ecuador’s TC television channel’s live broadcast was interrupted on Tuesday when armed…
Listen to the world at your window
What noises come from the street to the wide-open windows? In Cairo, in Quito, in Hanoi, in Naples, the voices of street vendors and passers-by stretch out, call out to…
Therefore, Ecuador has become a center for the cocaine trade
Ecuador’s geographical location may be a factor in the country’s role in the cocaine trade becoming greater, says SVT’s Latin America correspondent Tigran Feiler. – Ecuador has a strategic location…
a close duel in a country undermined by violence
More than 13 million Ecuadorians are heading to the polls this Sunday for the second round of the presidential election. It is contested between Luisa Gonzalez, a left-wing candidate close…