Three Colombians are among those killed in the massacre at the Litoral Penitentiary, confirms Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez

The Government of Colombia confirmed this Friday that three of its citizens were killed in a massacre perpetrated last Saturday at the Guayas Number 1 Center for the Deprivation of Liberty, also known as “The Litoral Penitentiary”, which left 68 dead, according to figures. preliminary proceedings of the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office.

In a letter addressed to the Colombian ambassador in Quito, Manuel Enrique Rosero, Foreign Minister Marta Lucía Ramírez confirmed that “three of our compatriots” are those who “perished in the recent riots in Ecuador’s penitentiaries.”

“I want to request your valuable collaboration to be very attentive, offering all the necessary support to the families of the victims, including the consular attention that is necessary so that they can proceed with the prompt repatriation of the corpses of their loved ones,” Ramírez told Rosero in the letter.

Likewise, he asked him to “inquire about the current state of health and integrity of the Colombians who are detained in those prisons.”

That massacre was added to another massacre that occurred last September when 118 murdered inmates were reported, as well as other similar events that, during this year, have left more than 200 inmates dead, according to journalistic data disseminated on social networks.

The authorities attribute this crisis to the clashes between criminal gangs that are fighting for control of the prisons.

These groups apparently are related to drug trafficking cartels, especially Mexicans and Colombians, who apparently use the country for internal and international drug trafficking, which comes from producing countries such as Colombia and Peru. (I)