On the afternoon of January 8, President Daniel Noboa published a video on social networks in which he reiterates that the government will not negotiate with terrorists and that what is seen in the country’s prisons is the reaction of organized crime to the actions of the current regime.

In the morning, Communications Secretary Roberto Izurieta pointed out that everyone knows that there is a failed prison system in the country. A qualification that is not new, but the appreciation of the facts is the first step that should pave the way for concrete and permanent solutions, and not for a momentary ‘lull’.

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Who manages the prisons? That’s where you should start if you know there’s a faulty system. The unfortunate videos that circulated on social media this Monday and information from the National Service for the Comprehensive Care of Adults Deprived of Liberty and Juvenile Offenders (SNAI) about the detention of servers from the Prison Security and Surveillance Unit in five prisons in Ecuador. further proof of what the communications secretary indicated on television.

Returning control over prisons must be real, it cannot rest on rhetoric. If the laws regulating interventions must be changed, the project must be presented urgently. And while the executive and legislative branches are carrying it out, it is true that a state of emergency was dictated so that the entry of the Armed Forces and the National Police into the rehabilitation centers would have all the strength and support that the president asserted in his speech. yesterday.

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Decrees on exceptions are not long-term solutions and are issued precisely in emergency cases. This time it is valid for 60 days, and the measure includes declaring a curfew from 11:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.

It is optimal that we work in parallel on real and permanent control of prisons and restore peace to the country. For this, the president has all the support of the citizens and the request that all state agencies work together to achieve this. (OR)