Troopers enter the jail in Cotopaxi, Ecuador, Sunday, January 14, 2024. Troopers and police intervened in a number of prisons in Ecuador in quest of weapons, ammunition and explosives and to revive order.
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Troopers enter the jail in Cotopaxi, Ecuador, Sunday, January 14, 2024. Troopers and police intervened in a number of prisons in Ecuador in quest of weapons, ammunition and explosives and to revive order.
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QUITO, Ecuador – A prosecutor investigating a dramatic assault on the set of a public tv channel final week was shot to loss of life Wednesday in Guayaquil, Ecuador's most harmful metropolis.
Prosecutor César Suárez, who had performed different high-profile investigations up to now, was shot whereas driving a automobile, mentioned Legal professional Normal Diana Salazar.
“Organized crime teams, criminals, terrorists don’t forestall our dedication to society,” he mentioned in a video broadcast on X, previously Twitter.
13 alleged perpetrators had been arrested within the assault on TC Tv, which was broadcast stay and led President Daniel Noboa to declare that Ecuador is in an “inner armed battle” amid a rise in killings and different crimes associated to drug trafficking.
Suárez was additionally in control of the Metastasis case involving an Ecuadorian drug lord who allegedly acquired favorable therapy from judges, prosecutors, police and senior officers.
Ecuadorian police mentioned they had been working to seek out these liable for Suárez's homicide.
Ecuador has been rocked by a sequence of assaults, together with the kidnapping of a number of cops, following the obvious escape from jail of a infamous gang chief.
José Adolfo Macías Villamar, chief of Los Choneros, one of many Ecuadorian gangs believed to be liable for a spike in automotive bombings, kidnappings and murders, was found lacking from his jail cell the place he was being held carrying a penalty for drug trafficking.
His disappearance earlier this month led the federal government to declare a state of emergency that concerned sending the army into jail, which sparked a wave of not less than 30 assaults across the South American nation, together with the assault on the tv station in Guayaquil.
