Government of Ecuador approves anti-terrorist military operations

The government of Ecuador issued this Wednesday an executive decree that approves military and police operations against the terrorism and that it responds to a strategy that tries to put an end to a spiral of violence from organized crime and murders, robberies and assaults that have shaken Ecuadorian society in the last two years.

The executive decree, announced by the Communication Secretariat of the Presidency, provides that the Armed forces “carry out military operations in all or in part of the national territory to confront and counter terrorist individuals and organizations”.

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These operations, it was added in the decree, must be applied subject to international instruments, the provisions of the Constitution and the internal legal system, “in order to guarantee the sovereignty and territorial integrity” and the full validity of the supreme norm and the rule of law.

Likewise, the decree orders the Joint Command of the Armed Forces “immediately initiate the corresponding actions to repress the terrorist threat with all the means at its disposal, in coordination with the National Police”.

It further provided that the National Comprehensive Care Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAIin charge of prisons) take “strict security provisions” for soldiers and agents who, due to these operations, could be “subjected to criminal proceedings”.

In addition, he commissioned Ministry of Economy and Finance to allocate the necessary resources to meet the requirements of the Armed Forces and the Police to fulfill the entrusted mission.

Finally, the Government, in its decree, urged the other functions of the State to support the “Fight against him terrorismrespecting the independence of powers”.

The decree responds to a resolution reached on April 28 by the Public and State Security Council (Cosepe), the president’s highest advisory body on this matter, which recommended the use of lethal weapons to combat the wave of crimes in the country, attributed to organized crime gangs, considered “terrorists” by the Executive.

Cosepe, headed by the conservative president William Lassorecommended the action even of the military forces by virtue of the wave of crime that affects the country and that seems to have exceeded the control of law enforcement officers.

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The Government has begun to consider various violent actions attributed to organized crime as terrorists, especially massacres perpetrated by armed individuals in various cities in the country’s coastal zone.

In addition, daily news proliferates about murders committed by hitmen, extortion, kidnappings, assaults and robberies, among other crimes, by organized crime groups that, according to the authorities, have links to international gangs of the drug trafficking.

On the other hand, the authorization for the military to act against terrorism was given at a time when the National Assembly (Parliament) is processing a political trial of censorship against President Lasso, accused by the opposition of an alleged crime of embezzlement (embezzlement) in a public company.

Source: Elcomercio

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