This is a reality confirmed by statistics, but above all felt by the suffering population; And, if there is no general reaction to stop this triumphant march of crime, Ecuador will not exist in a short time as a free country of safe coexistence. The state, its institutions, seem powerless at the moment. Things have reached such a point that even the criminal prosecution of the President of the Republic has taken a back seat, overtaken by the wave of crime and violence that terrifies everyone. Only a national patriotic movement, regardless of ideology, can achieve national revival through a new Constitution and laws and new people. O youth, how much I miss you!

“I just have to close the business, life is more important”: in Montebello and Mucho Lote, extortionists threaten with explosives

The President of the Republic must admit that his conception of the state may be valid for past times, but not for facing the new, terrible reality. To deal with organized crime, they chose people without the necessary knowledge and experience; he appointed inferiors to command his superiors in rank. To divide the Ministry of the Government, to create the Ministry of Internal Affairs and that part of the mountain that is the Secretariat for Security, meant confusion of functions and loss of efficiency.

These are the 53 appearances the Oversight Commission is waiting to gather evidence in the political trial of President Guillermo Lasso

The combined sea and land attack in Esmeraldas enters the realm of the uncanny: the fishermen were mercilessly killed in a two-minute operation perfectly planned and executed as if it were a military commando operation. This fact gives us the insight that there is no necessary intelligence on the capabilities of the adversary. The convened session of the Security Council that was supposed to take place in Esmeraldas – where it will also try to restore the confidence of the residents – was canceled or postponed due to, fortunately, less indisposition of the head of state. I think it should have happened under the chairmanship of the vice president or whoever follows him in rank, so that the population does not feel so helpless. The president should delegate. The expressions of the interior minister questioning the prevention of the United States embassy in the wave of violence in Guayaquil could not be more unfortunate. He said that it was not an official source, that he had not been formally informed, nor who the informant was, as if the Embassy would give him away. Fortunately, the police in Guayaquil took it seriously and activated the alarms.

acts of hope

The president is on trial for alleged embezzlement in Flopec. I think he could pay for his innocence by suppressing the existence of Flopec, thus undoing this whole web of corruption that has been cunningly subjected to the judges of New York. The security and intelligence forces must be very careful during the final phase of a possible trial to prevent any terrorist attack, which would be the most serious, or illegal mobilizations, organized by experts to destroy public order; that in this they are never idle and quickly set the machines of the revolution of the masses in motion. The political trial of the president, which is almost always harmful to the country, should be handled by anticipating what may happen in the future. (OR)