The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, assured this Wednesday that he began the second phase of the “war” that he declared since the beginning of the year against organized crime gangs, with the issuance of a new state of exception that covers 7 of the 24 provinces of the country, as well as a municipality in an eighth province.
This state of exception replaces a previous one that had been applied on April 30 in five provinces (Guayas, Santa Elena, Manabí, El Oro and Los Ríos) and that on May 10 was declared unconstitutional by the Constitutional Court, considering that The measure was not properly founded.
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