Lorena Guale returned to the country from Barcelona, Spain, after two years to spend the Christmas holidays with her family. She came with her husband and her two children and she says that she found out at Immigration that the Police could accompany her to her mother’s house, where she will spend three weeks.
The 35-year-old migrant admits that she felt relieved, since she was heading to Guasmo north, an area considered critical in Guayaquil.
She says she has heard so much bad news from her industry that she feared something would happen to them, even though her two brothers arrived in a van to pick up the travelers and their suitcases.
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Two motorcycles left from the José Joaquín de Olmedo airport to accompany this Guayaquil woman who has been living in Europe for almost 20 years and who watches with fear how murders and extortions in Ecuador have multiplied in recent years.
Like Lorena, other travelers who arrive at the local air terminal resort to the police guard to go to their homes.
Lieutenant Edwin Salguero, from the Atarazana District, is in charge of the motorists who remain at the airport and says that daily about 30 families take advantage of the Safe Return program that has been in force since December 5.
Since then, the uniformed officers have made some 216 reservations. They work in two shifts. On Tuesday, December 20, they attended 12 families in the morning and at night they had 15 shelters.
This initiative was created 10 years ago in order to protect those who leave the air terminal to their destination, since cases of kidnappings were reported. express in taxis taken at airports or even criminals followed the families who were in private cars and assaulted them when they were about to enter their properties.
“They took their suitcases and even their cell phones,” says Lieutenant Salguero, who assures that no news of this type has been reported in Guayaquil during the season.
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The address can be located anywhere in the province of Guayas, but if the user goes to another province, the gendarmes are in charge of requesting a patrolman from that district to continue with the protection, Salguero details, since many migrants arrive at the local airport, but then take vehicles to reach nearby cities.
For now, six police officers on motorcycles remain outside the international arrival gate. Two by two they go out to accompany the tourists.
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Source: Eluniverso
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