From outside Ecuador, journalists and presenters from digital and traditional media shared their concerns about this the seizure of the facilities TC Television next Tuesday, January 9, as the channel broadcast live.

Hooded men enter the TC Television station in Guayaquil

“Terrorism in Ecuador. It’s happening on the TV channel right now @tcttv“, wrote Andrea Bernal, journalist RCN And NTN24. “In Guayaquil, hooded men entered the facilities, they have weapons. They are live.”

“One of the most violent days in Ecuador. The level of terrorism no longer has a name. We always ask ourselves: what else could happen?” the journalist also wondered Dayanna Monroy, out News 14in Univision.

Daniel Noboa announces an internal armed conflict at the national level and orders the armed forces to neutralize groups

The journalist Ruth del Salto, from the report of her program NTN24, Corner 24, conducted some reports and interviews with personalities such as retired general Luis Hernández, the advisor on public security and state affairs Katherine Herrera, and broadcast live several minutes of opinion poll with the Ecuadorian filmmaker Carlos Andrés Vera, son of the journalist Carlos Vera.

A few hours earlier, Del Salto had announced a debate on the “mysterious” escapes of criminals, questioning President Noboa’s security policies.

Road closures, evacuations and uncertainty in some sectors of Guayaquil due to armed raid on TC Televisión

Venezuelan journalist and political analyst Eduardo Menoni shared a video of students and teachers from the University of Guayaquil running or hiding in classrooms and blocking doors to protect themselves. He explained that they were trying to protect themselves from criminals attacking the campus.

The columnist and host of The Herald from Mexico Alejandro Sánchez also shared his analysis of the situation and summarized it with the sentence: “Drugs are taking over Ecuador!”. He cited the killings of police officers, riots in prisons and attacks with explosives in the streets, as well as the state of emergency following the escape of the “key ally of the Sinaloa cartel.”

Meanwhile, in Ecuador, Janeth Hinostroza called what happened the expression of ‘a state of war’. He then replicated President Daniel Noboa’s decree on the state of armed conflict, which orders the armed forces to carry out military operations to neutralize armed groups. (JO)