The Noboa Government concentrates a new state of exception in five provinces of Ecuador

The government of Ecuador announced this Tuesday a new state of exception centered on five provinces in the country’s coastal zone, where violent actions such as homicides, kidnappings and extortion attributed to organized crime gangs persist, against which the “internal armed conflict” continues to be declared.

The Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboathrough an executive decree declared a state of emergency for sixty days in the coastal provinces of The gold, Guaias, The rivers, Manabi It is Saint Helenwhat left those of Emeralds It is Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilaslocated in the same region.

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In these territories the right to the inviolability of the home is suspended and is based on the need to “carry out tactical combat operations against organized armed groups”.

This new state of exception occurred less than a month after the end of another similar measure on a national scale that Noboa kept in force between January 8 and April 7 to suppress an escalation of criminal violence that in recent years has led the country to be among first of Latin America in homicides per capita.

With this measure, given in the face of a wave of attacks and violent actions that occurred in parallel with a series of prison riots, Noboa militarized prisons, which were epicenters of the violence crisis, as many of them were controlled by criminal organizations.

Despite the end of this previous state of exception, Noboa maintained the declaration of “internal armed conflict”In the country, with which he declared the criminal gangs operating in the country as terrorist groups and non-state belligerent actors.

Furthermore, the military maintained operations in the country’s prisons, many of which are internally dominated by criminal gangs, whose rivalry has left more than 450 inmates murdered since 2020 in a series of prison massacres.

This violence in prisons took to the streets to such an extent that Ecuador became one of the most violent countries in the world. Latin America in 2023.

After months of military intervention in internal security, the Government predicted a drop in crime indicators, but the increase in violence, especially in the coastal region, once again activated alerts in the country.

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In the days before the referendum held on April 21 at the initiative of Noboa, two mayors of municipalities in the provinces of El Oro and Azuayin the south of the country, where illegal mining activities were present in both.

On the same day of the vote, the director of the prison of The rodeoin the city of Portoviejocapital of the coastal province of Manabi.

Ecuadorians overwhelmingly supported reforms to strengthen the fight against organized crime, such as amending the Constitution so that the military can permanently support the Police in operations against criminal gangs.

Source: Elcomercio

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