At least four police officers were kidnapped in Ecuador in the middle of Exception status decreed on Monday by the president Daniel Noboabehind the boss escape of the main band narcocriminal who was confined in a Guayaquil prisonreported the police institution.
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Three police officers were kidnapped, who were on duty at the scene.
In the coastal city of Machala (southwest) “the kidnapping of three police officers, who were on duty at the scene”, while a fourth uniformed man was kidnapped in Quito, the police reported through their account on the social network X around midnight.
He added that in the capital three individuals driving a “tinted vehicle without license plates” took the police officer away.
The kidnappings occurred after Noboa declared a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country, including the prison system. The measure includes a six-hour curfew that began at 11:00 p.m. and will last until 5:00 a.m. local time (from 4:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. GMT).
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The new president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, delivers his first speech during his inauguration at the National Assembly.
The president said that the emergency will allow the Armed Forces to intervene in the prison controlwhere the retention of prison guides was reported, without the body that administers the prisons (SNAI) having specified the number of those detained or if they were released.
“We are not going to negotiate with terrorists nor will we rest until we return peace to Ecuadorians,” Noboa expressed in a video broadcast on his social media account. instagram.
The president, who did not mention the escape of the leader of the Los Choneros gang, attributed the situation in the prisons to his government's actions to “regain control” of the centers.
Noboa announced last week that will build two maximum security prisons -in the style of the one built by the Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele in its war against gangs – in the provinces of Pastaza (east) and Santa Elena (southwest), to isolate the most dangerous inmates.
Police and military search for Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito”, who was serving a sentence of 34 years for organized crime, drug trafficking and murder.
His gang is the most feared in the country and competes with others for drug trafficking routes. In this case, the Prosecutor's Office reported on the social network
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Tonight, at the UPC Wilson Franco #Machalathree police officers were kidnapped, who were on duty at the scene.
Likewise, in the city of #UIOat UPC Llano 1, a police officer was kidnapped by 3 antisocials who… pic.twitter.com/bwqR4mSFe8
— Ecuador Police (@PoliciaEcuador) January 9, 2024
The alert went off on Sunday, when in an operation lThe police could not find him in the Guayaquil Regional Prison. The government's Secretary of Communication, Roberto Izurieta, stated in an interview with the Teleamazonas channel that “most likely” there were “infiltrations” about an imminent security operation in the prison and Macías escaped “hours before.”
They joined the police plagiarism on Monday night explosions in the coastal Esmeraldas (northwest and near the border with Colombia), one of the Ecuadorian provinces controlled by mafias. According to the police, several people threw a explosive device near a police station and two vehicles were burned in other places, leaving no victims.
In Quito it was also reported car explosion in the south of the city and the explosion of a device near a pedestrian bridge. Located in the middle of Colombia and Peru, the world's largest cocaine producers,
Ecuador is bleeding from the war for power between drug organizations. 2023 closed with more than 7,800 homicides and 220 tons of drugs seized, a new record in the nation. Since February 2021, clashes between prisoners left more than 460 dead. Besides, Homicides on the streets between 2018 and 2023 grew by almost 800% going from 6 to 46 per 100,000 inhabitants.
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