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The president of Ecuadorthe conservative Guilherme Lassoextended for another 30 days the state of exception decreed in July in the country’s penitentiary system, made up of 35 prisons, to contain the crisis of violence between criminal gangs that has seen more than 400 prisoners murdered since 2020 in a series of massacres.
The Ecuadorian president extended the state of emergency through a decree issued during his trip to U.Swhen the first 60-day period ordered on July 25 after the latest massacre was about to expire.
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The measure allows the support of Armed forces The National Police carry out interventions in penitentiary centers.
During the first two months of the state of emergency in prisons in Ecuador A dozen interventions were carried out with the entry of large contingents of police and military personnel into prisons to disarm the criminal gangs that internally control the prisons.
As a result of this series of research, called Camex (control of weapons, ammunition and explosives), arsenals composed of rifles, grenade launcher, pistols It is revolversas well as grenades, explosives and tens of thousands of bullets of different calibers, as well as hundreds of knives and tens of kilos of drugs.
Most of the weapons were found in the Coastal Penitentiarythe largest and most populous prison in Ecuador, which was also the scene of the worst massacres recorded in recent years in the country.
Weapons were not only found in prisoner-run wards, but also in state-run facilities. National Service for Comprehensive Care for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the body responsible for penitentiary control and management.
Due to this, several employees were detained, including the director of Provisional Detention Center of the penitentiary complex Guaiasa set of five prisons located on the outskirts of Guayaquilwhere around 12,300 people are detained.
One of these five arrests is Guayaquil Regional Prisonin whose intervention he was transferred to The rockthe maximum security prison, the leader of the criminal gang The Choneros, Adolfo Macías “Fito”but a judge revoked the measure so that it returned to its original location, controlled by the organization it leads.
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A few days after returning to Regional, La Roca was attacked by a drone with explosives, whose controlled detonation caused serious damage to the roof of the prison yard.
Likewise, the Government reports the four car bombs that exploded in Quito and in the southern city of Machala at the end of August with this series of interventions, as they occurred just hours after the arrest of Latacungalocated in the province of Cotopaxiabout 70 kilometers south of the Ecuadorian capital.
The operation would have been accompanied by the transfer of leaders of the criminal gang The Wolveswhich triggered riots in at least six other prisons also controlled by the same gang, such as that of Bowlwhere prisoners took more than fifty police officers and prison guards hostage for almost two days.
Source: Elcomercio
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