Regardless of whether the civil judgment has been emphasized or mitigated over the years, the most likely historical guilt lies with the government of Guillermo Lasso for allowing the greatest criminal outpouring in the republican life of this country; In other words, the current regime will be remembered mostly for the heavy burden that led us to tragically become one of the most violent countries on the planet. Another thing is that it is unfair and inappropriate to put all the responsibility for this bloodless panorama on the president’s management, because there are circumstances and factors that go far beyond what he could have done or not done in his mandate, but there is no doubt that the general perception of the incompetence of the current Government in preserving public order is categorical and well-founded.

A kilogram of cocaine, which is worth 2,000 dollars in Ecuador, reaches up to 200,000 dollars in Arab countries.

Paradoxically, one of the greatest weaknesses in the management of the security crisis has been the repeated assertion that crime is overwhelmed as a fundamental effect of the seizure of tons of cocaine, which would mean, as the president suggested, that instead of drugs being marketed and exported, criminal groups mutate into other crimes , which would explain the current crisis. However, the thesis that violence arises as a result of drug confiscation is untenable, because the government cannot boast of drug confiscation while the country bleeds day by day and becomes a victim of unpunished crime.

Criminal violence is changing the routine in Durán amid efforts to contain the bloodshed in the streets, which are insufficient

Now there are opinions of people who have a deeper knowledge of the issue of organized crime, and just these days I read an interview conducted with the coordinator of the Ecuadorian Observatory for Organized Crime, who warns that the seizure of drugs is a measure of success or failure in the fight against drug trafficking, but it is an “incomplete reading”; For example, it is estimated that 180 tons of cocaine were confiscated last year, which is probably not even 50% of what passed through the country, to which we add that criminal organizations with their powerful economic flows are obviously assigned a loss quota. According to what was mentioned in the interview, the problem of overflowing crime is not the result, as the current regime mentioned, of drug capture, but we are immersed in the war of criminal organizations that need to control the territory and finance all their operations at the local level, which in turn causes a lot of crimes, extortion , kidnapping, etc.

Guillermo Lasso indicates that the departure from the Manta base ‘was used by criminal organizations to quietly expand their economy’

Perhaps the main problem of the Government was its inability to respond meaningfully to the tsunami of violence. On top of it all and with obvious irrelevance, the president asserted a few days ago that the sense of insecurity perceived in Ecuador is not such, leading many to think that people may have simple perceptions. But how difficult. These are perceptions that kill, perceptions that inoculate, perceptions that rob. And so it will go down in history. (OR)