Statements by President Guillermo Lasso during an interview with the American media Voz de América, held on September 22, caused outrage among Ecuadorians.

Helplessness grows with news like the one on the night of the 24th of this month, in which painful videos and photos circulated of the latest murder of five people in Durán by killers who opened fire on a group of people watching a football match. football.

When asked about the images of the murder of former presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio that were published internationally on August 9, the president said: “I understand that these images that have gone around the world create a feeling of absolute insecurity in Ecuador, which is not because much of the violence, he said bih 90%, it happens between gangs, between organized criminal groups that dispute over territory for selling drugs.”

The head of state also said that as an Ecuadorian, he wants that to change. This is what all the inhabitants of this country long for, Mr. President. And those who among the victims of the increasingly frequent group attacks in Ecuador have innocent relatives, relatives and friends of collateral victims, do not agree with you that insecurity is a ‘sensation’.

It is true that attacks, for the most part, can be directed against members of criminal groups, but people put the dead in front of the inaction of the government in territories where, due to their intelligence and public power, they know that they are in conflict and where not only criminals live, but they have infiltrated , putting at risk families who do not have the opportunity to change homes.

Governors must learn to control their speech. Apart from the number they may have, they insult the bleeding nation with their words, and those who trusted them with their actions. You can’t keep losing lives and pretend it’s perception. (OR)