It is essential to overcome the pessimism, fear, anxiety felt in Ecuador. You have to think and act positively. But will it be possible?

The empire of organized crime has just been demonstrated by the murder, on Friday, October 6, 2023, in the main detention center in Guayaquil, of six Colombian killers who entered Ecuador a few weeks ago and were accused of murder. – August 9, 2023 – Fernanda Villavicencio, candidate for the President of the Republic, trying to silence the investigation for which the US government is offering a reward of 5 million dollars.

The government announces the reorganization of the police command after the death of seven prisoners involved in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio

The executors of the material conspiracy to murder Villavicencia, brought “for safety” to Guayaquil, are already dead; And, will it be “colorín, colorado, the case is closed or will there be effective investigations to determine who ordered the murder of Villavicencio, and now his killers?

Crime and insecurity go beyond being the generators and outcomes of conflicts between drug-trafficking gangs and other criminal groups. Extortion in the form of “vaccines” that are attacked by many medium and small businesses in order to continue to exist, with bad precedents that those who refuse to pay and prefer to close suffer multiple reprisals; and ransom payments to people who were taken by force were intensified in the first days of October 2023.

It is essential to overcome perceived pessimism, fear and anxiety. You have to think and act positively.

It is good that the two presidential candidates, Luisa González and Daniel Noboa, accepted the invitation of the mayor of Guayaquil, Aquiles Alvarez, to attend today’s solemn anniversary session of October 9, 1820. We hope that it will be for a sincere commitment to the city and the country, and not a compliment because someone is on a campaign. One of the two must be president, not just for photos and travel, but for actually holding power. Neither for instructions by ear, nor for acting based on the interests of the environment that surrounds them.

We need security, sources of work, quality of life with access to basic services, food and medicine, health facilities and educational centers, and that in a timely manner, not for “someday” which may be too late or never.

Preventive detention was ordered against José M., the director of the penitentiary

For the days between October 15, the date of the second round of voting, and the first week of December, the approximate calculation for having the new composition of the Assembly and the elected ruler, about a month and a half, whoever is the beneficiary of the popular will, must have access to all the true information that allows him to set priorities in order to start executing them by owning them.

Those going to the Assembly must pledge to Ecuador that they will allow whoever takes over the presidency to rule in December 2023, as a result of the second round of voting.

If political decisions are prioritized, demanding or amnesty, distribution of public authority space, convening consultations with millions of costs or prior announcement of the founding assembly, which would multiply the costs for a bigger fiscal deficit, would be a mistake. (OR)