Today, by decree, the President recognized 20 international criminal groups that operate in the country as terrorist organizations.
Photo: REUTERS
What is happening in Ecuador, video
In fact, a civil war began in Ecuador. Bandits from the drug cartels terrorize the country: they kidnapped the live broadcast of the TC Televisión channel with explosives, attacked the University of Guayaquil, burned cars and kidnapped people in the streets. Local social networks were filled with videos of police and soldiers taken hostage, with cameras pointed at their heads. President Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency and issued a decree of internal armed conflict. KP.RU understands the reasons for what is happening.
Images from the TC Televisión studio in Guayaquil went around the world: masked thugs burst into the air, shook improvised explosive devices and grenades, put a bomb in the TV presenter’s pocket… Employees of the TV company television are sitting and lying on the floor in horror.
Journalist Bernarda Cevallos said that the attackers entered the building ten minutes before the start of the newscast.
“A friend called and shouted, “Ten murderers ran into the studio!” When I arrived, the outside doors were closed. I heard shots. Some journalists ran to the roof, others hid in the bathrooms…” Television crews wrote panicked messages on social media: “They want to kill us all!”
It is still unclear how the police intervened, but La República wrote: some of the television hostages were freed (one received a gunshot wound) and “some criminals” were detained. At the time of writing this note, the assault continued.
The attackers entered the building ten minutes before the start of the news.
Photo: REUTERS
Meanwhile, terrible events were taking place at the University of Guayaquil: armed gangsters also entered there. Students and teachers barricaded themselves in classrooms. Eyewitnesses said that the bandits were trying to capture civilians and were engaged in robbery.
In different cities of the country, drug cartel militants began to act in the streets: they burned cars, mocked the military and police, where they managed to surround them and opened fire.
The sound of gunshots was heard in the Guayaquil metro and even near the presidential palace in Quito.
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What was the reason for the bandits’ terror? Ecuador is a country of drug cartels; It occupies one of the first places in the world in cocaine trafficking. The famous Mexican Sinaloa cartel has turned Ecuador into the main transit point for the export of its potion. Local gopnik gangs have become the most dangerous armed formations. And authorities give an equally harsh response to harsh behavior.
Last August, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who fought corruption and crime, was shot three times in the head after a campaign rally.
Shortly before his death, the politician said that he had received threats from the henchmen of one of the Sinaloa cartel’s henchmen, the head of the Los Choneros gang, nicknamed Fito.
This same Fito – alias Adolfo Macías – has been serving a 34-year sentence in a Guayaquil prison since 2011. On January 8, he “evaporated” from his cell. Authorities were unable to determine how this happened, even though Fito’s security measures were strict. The jailers couldn’t even answer when exactly Macías disappeared. (By the way, six people detained as suspects in the murder of Villavecencio were… murdered in prison; thus the masterminds covered their tracks).
Enraged by Fito’s escape, President Noboa declared a state of emergency in Ecuador, sent three thousand security forces to search for the drug trafficker and ordered order to be restored in the prisons. The response to this was widespread terror.
Today, by decree, the President recognized 20 international criminal groups that operate in the country as terrorist organizations. And he called not only on the police, but also on the army to act as “guarantors of the country’s sovereignty.” Security forces were promised full leniencies if they immediately eliminated those suspected of taking hostages.
But drug traffickers have no intention of giving up. Breaking news: bullies started shooting in schools, the government canceled all classes for the country’s students.
