Conflicts between rival criminal groups took their lives 14 people over the weekend in the port city of Ecuador Guayaquil, a struggle for the struggle for bloody government between Narko Bandi, police said on Monday.
In one incident, armed men on motorcycles shot in a crowd gathered in front of a food product, killing a child and six adults, said police chief Santiago Tuston, warning of a possible “repression” to follow.
Social media videos after the attack showed shocking body images lying on the street in northern Guayaquil.
Tuston said that the massacre – whose accurate motive was not published – brought up to 14 numbers of people killed in Guayaquil over the weekend. He did not give details about the other killings.
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Guayaquil is the capital of the southwestern Province of Guayas, where it has emerged from January as a state of emergency, while authorities are struggling to reduce spiral violence in the once unusual country of South America.
Ecuador is home to about 20 criminal gangs involved in trade, abduction and extortion, a devastation in the country of 18 million, which has been squeezed between the world’s largest cocaine, Peru and Colombia producers.
In recent years, the nation has been immersed in violence by rapid expansion of transnational cartels using their ports – especially in Guayaquil – for drug delivery to the United States and Europe.
The murders increased from six to 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 at a record 47 in 2023.
In accordance with the emergency and military condition launched by President Daniel Nobo, as of November 2023, this figure dropped to 38 to 100,000 last year, according to official data. In January 2024. Noboa declared a the state of “an inner armed conflict” After a brutal wave of violence, caused by the prison of the powerful chief of the crime.
Last Friday, Hitmen shot in a columnL, which was in charge of drug surgery in the second part of the port city. Police said Colonel Porfirio Cedeño, who led the Air Force Special Operation Unit, a traveler in a van who took him to a military ceremony.
Noboa is looking for a new expression in the election that will go for a runoff in April after the unconvincing first round of last Sunday saw him a narrow challenger Luis Gonzalez.
Over the weekend, the president replaced his interior minister and replaced it with retired police General Faust Buenan, who has many years of experience fighting Narko Banda.
Last month the army said the leader of one of the greatest crimes unions in EcuadorLos Lobos, he was arrested in his house in Portoviejo coastal town. AND The US declared Los Lobos last year be the largest organization for drug trafficking in Ecuador.
