In 2021 alone there were 68 femicides and 159 violent deaths of women in Ecuador, compared to 74 femicides in 2020 and 91 violent deaths of women in the year that the country experienced the effects of the coronavirus, according to official figures from the Council of the Judiciary.
On another topic, twelve murders They were reported last Sunday in Guayaquil, which was one of the days with the highest crimes. Seven of the deceased were in the same meeting. The National Police insists that the crimes are related to settling scores between gangs and a dispute over territory.
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Stop gender violence on Women’s Day
A problem in society that is on the rise, with no apparent solution, according to rights activists and relatives, are femicides, which have become another ‘pandemic’ that is denounced again on International Women’s Day. In Ecuador, the authorities put at 529 femicides that have been registered in the country from 2014 to last February.
Feminist and missing persons groups call for three marches in Quito for Women’s Day
Hitmen do not give truce in the south of Guayaquil
Five men and two women were shot to death and two more people are hospitalized after assassins arrived in a car to an alley of Las Malvinas, in the south of Guayaquil, and fired rifles at a family that was drinking outside their house.
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Three people are murdered in a cocoa farm in Manabí
Three people were murdered in a house located in the Las Pajitas de la Soledad complex, in the Olmedo canton, 80 kilometers east of Portoviejo. According to the residents of this locality, presumably in three vehicles they moved the people who committed the multiple murder.
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Situation of civilians in Ukraine
The Russia-Ukraine conflict continues claiming innocent civilian lives who prefer to avoid violence, contrary to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who in his attempt to “demilitarize and denazify” the European country, attack without mercy.
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Young protected his grandfather from violence in the game Querétaro vs. Atlas
The riots between bars that took place in the Querétaro-Atlas match, this weekend in Mexico, and in which 26 people were injuredthey left several postcards and situations that attracted attention. (I)
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