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Ecuador budgets US$ 125 million for two Bukele-style prisons

Ecuador budgets US$ 125 million for two Bukele-style prisons Ecuador budgets US$ 125 million for two Bukele-style prisons

The two new prisons that the president of EcuadorDaniel Noboa, plans to build in the country under a model similar to that of his counterpart Nayib Bukele In El Salvador they will cost approximately US$ 125 million. This was announced this Wednesday by the Vice Minister of Finance, Daniel Falconí, in a workshop on the […]

Ecuador receives help from the US to confront the fight against violence

Ecuador receives help from the US to confront the fight against violence Ecuador receives help from the US to confront the fight against violence

A plane USA with help to confront the fight against violence unleashed by criminal organizations came to Ecuadorit was officially reported on Tuesday, while the authorities assured that the siege on the fugitive leader of the largest gang in the country is tightening. Admiral Jaime Vela, head of the joint command of the Armed Forces, […]

Who is “Fito”, the missing criminal leader and “patron” of drug trafficking in Ecuador

Who is “Fito”, the missing criminal leader and “patron” of drug trafficking in Ecuador Who is “Fito”, the missing criminal leader and “patron” of drug trafficking in Ecuador

José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito”but also “the boss” as he calls himself in songs in his honor, he is the leader of the band of “The Choneros”, to whom they attribute links with the Mexican Sinaloa cartel, and the protagonist since Sunday of a mysterious disappearance that was followed by a sequence of violent […]

Homicide ratio confirms Ecuador as the most violent country in the region

Homicide ratio confirms Ecuador as the most violent country in the region Homicide ratio confirms Ecuador as the most violent country in the region

Ecuador closed the year 2023 with the tragic balance of 7,200 violent deaths, which represents a rate of 45 homicides per 100,000 population and places the country as the most violent of Latin America, according to data from the Ecuadorian Observatory of the Organized crime. The increase in figures shows the new dynamics of violence […]

Crisis in Ecuador: countries take different actions in the face of a wave of violence unleashed

Crisis in Ecuador: countries take different actions in the face of a wave of violence unleashed Crisis in Ecuador: countries take different actions in the face of a wave of violence unleashed

At least 10 people, including two police officers, have died so far in the wave of violence unleashed by criminal organizations in Ecuadorlocal media reported. The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaissued a decree declaring the existence of an internal armed conflict at the national level and ordering the military forces to act to dismantle 22 […]

Criminals enter the University of Guayaquil and try to kidnap people

Criminals enter the University of Guayaquil and try to kidnap people Criminals enter the University of Guayaquil and try to kidnap people

The University of Guayaquil Ecuador reported that the suspension of his academic activities, after armed individuals entered their facilities and threatened to take students and teachers hostage. Videos taken from the school campus were shared on social networks. In these you can see students running trying to take shelter, after allegedly armed men entered and […]

Violence in Ecuador: another criminal leader escapes from prison after an emergency decree

Violence in Ecuador: another criminal leader escapes from prison after an emergency decree Violence in Ecuador: another criminal leader escapes from prison after an emergency decree

Ecuador recorded the escape of another criminal leader from a prison in the midst of several acts of violenceincluding vehicle fires and explosions, perpetrated after the government decreed the day before a state of exception and curfew following the escape of a dangerous drug kingpin. The Secretariat for the Care of Persons Deprived of Liberty […]

Tunisia will analyze the increase in suicide attempts among minors, mainly girls

Tunisia will analyze the increase in suicide attempts among minors, mainly girls Tunisia will analyze the increase in suicide attempts among minors, mainly girls

The Tunisian Minister of Family, Women, Children and the Elderly, Amel Belhaj Moussa, today expressed her concern about the increase in attempts to suicide among minors, mainly girls, and announced the preparation of a study on this phenomenon “to scientifically and objectively identify the causes.” During an event to mark the month of child protection […]

“They put a price on everything”: organized crime hits the pockets of Mexicans

“They put a price on everything”: organized crime hits the pockets of Mexicans “They put a price on everything”: organized crime hits the pockets of Mexicans

Two abandoned plots stand out among gigantic crops of lemon and banana in ApatzingánMexico. Its owners were preparing the land to plant, but they preferred to leave when the organized crime He came to extort them. In this agricultural municipality in the state of Michoacán (west), as in many others in Mexico, criminals act as […]

Candidate seeks to open debate on drug legalization to reduce violence in Mexico

Candidate seeks to open debate on drug legalization to reduce violence in Mexico Candidate seeks to open debate on drug legalization to reduce violence in Mexico

The wannabe Presidential candidate by the ruling party, Gerardo Fernández Noroña shared this Saturday that during his tours of Mexicothe theme of the unsafety has been the biggest complaint from the population, for which reason he proposed opening the debate to the drug legalization to dismantle the power of the cartels and reduce violence and […]