The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa denounced this Friday that last January a coup attempt was recorded during the violent onslaught of drug trafficking. which left around twenty dead and led to the declaration of a state of internal armed conflict to neutralize “terrorist” groups.
“Today, after various information and having dematerialized certain devices, We see that there was even an attempted coup d’état,” expressed the young president, self-proclaimed center-left, when presenting a management report to Congress as established by the Constitution.
The escape of a criminal leader from a prison unleashed a strong attack in January by gangs linked to the Albanian mafia and cartels from Mexico and Colombia with violent prisoner riots, attacks against the press, car bomb explosions, the temporary retention of some 200 prison guards and police, also leaving around twenty dead.
Under that declaration, he ordered the Armed Forces to neutralize around twenty criminal organizations, which he called “terrorists” and “belligerents”, and which are accused of infiltrating all state spheres such as justice.
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In his message before the National Assembly (Parliament), one day after having served six months as head of State, Noboa asserted that he received a country “with fear and without hope,” so he had to make “hard” decisions. that other administrations did not dare, in search of a safe country, open to investments, job creation and to “guarantee the future of all.”
The president affirmed that last January 9 will be a date that the country will not forget, as the scope of “the horror of terrorism” has been revealed, with a series of attacks and violent actions by organized crime such as the takeover of the TC Televisión channel by of a group of armed men.
Noboa highlighted the commitment and sacrifice of law enforcement to combat mafias that “have accomplices and allies, at all levels of the country: public institutions, public companies, local governments, in our neighborhoods, they are everywhere.”
Despite the changes reported, Noboa said that the fight for “the ‘New Ecuador’ has only begun,” He pointed out that social transformation and security are also achieved “with employment, education, with services and empathy” with social actions that reveal “the face of a new Ecuador that is growing.”
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Along these lines, he also mentioned his Government’s efforts in the energy field, which In April it had to face blackouts due to a serious electricity crisisdue to the drought of one of the main hydroelectric complexes in the country.
”We are working very hard to solve the energy crisis, so that Ecuadorians, in the future, do not have to go through energy rationing anymore. In other words, we are cleaning up what those of the past made a mess of,” he indicated.
In the economic area, Noboa mentioned the existence of 105,000 youth employment positions, the ratification of two trade agreements (with China and Costa Rica) and the drop of 1,000 points in the risk premium.
“The new Ecuador does not give in to external pressures or even from citizens who call themselves Ecuadorians and even want their country to be sentenced,” he said, without referring to any specific person, although the day before he posted on social networks ” to cry aloud” to former President Rafael Correa for his statements regarding the crisis with Mexico.
Noboa did not speak in his speech about the assault in April on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, to capture Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa, which caused the breakdown of relations with the Mexican Government, as well as the almost unanimous condemnation of the international community.
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And he explained that he follows the lessons that formed his generation: “be strong so that no one defeats you, be noble so that no one humiliates you, be humble so that no one offends you and continue being you so that no one forgets you.”
“In just six months we are achieving what other governments did not do in two, nor in four, nor in ten years,” he said.
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