Tag: Ecuador

Friday, January 26th 2024 - 10:10 UTC
Ecuador gives US useless Russian weapons despite Moscow's warning

Ecuador's Foreign Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld admitted that his country sold useless Russian-built weaponry to the United States in exchange for operational arms to wage the South American country's war against drug trafficking gangs. The measure was adopted despite Moscow's advice against it, it was explained.
Thursday, January 25th 2024 - 10:31 UTC
Spain expresses its support to Daniel Noboa against violence in Ecuador

Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa admitted Wednesday in Madrid that it was very hard for him to leave his country amid the current wave of violence by drug-trafficking gangs but insisted it was necessary “to face the world” at the same time. The South American leader's words came during the opening of the Fitur 2024 tourism fair in the Spanish capital.
Wednesday, January 24th 2024 - 10:52 UTC
Ecuador eases curfew severity as violence gradually subsides

Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa Tuesday decreed a one-hour reduction to the curfew after the number of daily homicides was reported to have fallen from 27 to 11 nationwide in a country under a state of emergency following drug-trafficking gang revolts.
Tuesday, January 23rd 2024 - 11:10 UTC
Curfew extended as Ecuador “winning battle” against organized crime

Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa Monday announced a 30-day extension to the curfew from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am decreed on Jan. 8 when a wave of violence erupted nationwide as notorious prison inmates escaped unleashing riots at several corrections facilities and other attacks by drug-trafficking gangs that resulted in over 2,000 arrests.
Monday, January 22nd 2024 - 10:52 UTC
Ecuador: 40 arrested for seizing hospital

Ecuadorean authorities arrested 40 gang members this past weekend after they tried to seize the José Cevallos Ruiz hospital in Yaguachi, in the province of Guayas province, killing one person and taking several hostages as one of their comrades was being treated.
Friday, January 19th 2024 - 10:52 UTC
Ecuador: Two arrested in connection with Prosecutor Suárez's murder

Ecuadorean authorities Thursday arrested two people in connection with Wednesday's murder of Prosecutor César Suárez, who was handling the case of the Jan. 9 assault on a TV station amid the growing wave of drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime violence. Various guns and two vehicles were also seized in the operation, it was explained.
Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:56 UTC
Ecuadorean prosecutor handling last week's TV station seizure shot dead

Ecuadorean Prosecutor César Suárez who was handling the investigation into the Jan. 9 seizure of a Public TV station by a drug-trafficking gang, was shot dead Wednesday in Guayaquil, adding to the South American country's wave of crime and violence. Suárez took over 20 gunshots, it was reported. National Police “specialized units” have been assigned to the case.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:20 UTC
Boric keen on not mirroring Ecuador's crisis

Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Monday said during an engagement in the Coquimbo Region that his administration needed to do things to not have to go through the crisis Ecuador is experiencing. “We have to ask ourselves how we do things so that we don't get to that place,” Boric underlined.
Tuesday, January 16th 2024 - 11:17 UTC
Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured

Only five of the 48 prison inmates that escaped Monday from the Esmeraldas jailhouse were recaptured later in the day according to sources from Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa's administration quoted by local media.
Monday, January 15th 2024 - 10:06 UTC
Ecuador: Authorities regain control of prisons, free hostages

Ecuador's forces retook control of all the country's prisons and freed some 150 corrections officers who were being held hostage by the rioting inmates, it was reported this past weekend. However, one guard was killed during a shootout in the operation.