Mayhem in Ecuador: Cartel criminals take over key buildings in capital

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Do not know what is happening, but looks badly enough.
#ULTIMAHORA #MUNDO Hooded men in #Ecuador break into TV channel and threaten live journalists. A group of armed criminals broke into the headquarters of the TC Televisión channel in Guayaquil, intimidating a group of workers there. The incident has generated indignation
Security crisis in #Ecuador deepens after the escape of dangerous drug trafficker Adolfo Macias from a prison in #Guayaquil.
Now, in the same city, a group of hooded men who allegedly belong to the 'Los Choneros' gang, led by the fugitive from justice, broke into the headquarters of the TC Televisión channel and threatened journalists who were present.
Moments later, the Ecuadorian police entered the channel's offices to rescue the hostages from the armed men. According to reports in the neighboring country, some people were injured during the operation.
According to local channels, the emergency was reported through WahtsApp messages."Help, they want to kill us," shared a caller to ask for help from the police and ECU911.
According to Ecuador's El Universo, the criminals allegedly left dynamite at the reception of TC Televisión.
It is important to note that due to the escape of alias "Fito", as Macías is also known, the Ecuadorian government of Daniel Noboa declared a state of emergency.
The fugitive would be implicated in the assassination of the presidential candidate of the neighboring country, Fernando Villavicencio, which occurred in September 2023.

Source: CNN En Español
Video taken from X

Above does not explain what is happening at the university, though.

Urgent!!!
Chaos at the University of Guayaquil! Delinquents entered and try to kidnap people
 
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I have signed the executive decree declaring Internal Armed Conflict and identified the following transnational organized crime groups as terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors: Aguilas, AguilasKiller, Ak47, Caballeros Oscuros, ChoneKiller, Choneros, Choneros, Covicheros, Cuartel de las Feas, Cubanos, Fatales, Gánster, Kater Piler, Lagartos, Latin Kings, Lobos, Los p.27, Los Tiburones, Mafia 18, Mafia Trébol, Patrones, R7, Tiguerones.

I have ordered the Armed Forces to execute military operations to neutralize these groups.

CAPTURED

As a result of the intervention in @tctelevision #GYE, our police units so far achieve the apprehension of several subjects and evidence linked to the crime.

More details to follow...
At this moment military are deployed all over #Guayaquil.

🇪🇨 (Warning of strong images) | Inmates begin to kill prison guards in Ecuador.
He is threatening that if there is no dialogue, they will start killing everyone by showing it on video, police, officials etc. At the end he shot the one at the front.
 
Daniel Noboa, the unexpected new president of Ecuador is, like Milei in Argentina, an "outsider", an unknown in programmatic terms. From the vague and sometimes contradictory statements made during the electoral campaign, the only certainty that emerges is his pro-market position, with an emphasis on the promotion of exports of the primary sector (raw materials). During the campaign, Noboa Azín focused his proposals on job creation, without specifying concrete measures and only pointing out that job opportunities will improve as a result of the economic growth that his government will promote.

Daniel Noboa decreed his first state of emergency in Ecuador in the face of serious security crisis.
The president imposed the measure, which includes a two-month curfew, one day after the escape of Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, alias 'Fito', the country's most dangerous criminal.

Who is Adolfo Macías, "Fito", whose escape from prison in Ecuador led Noboa to declare a state of emergency in the country?

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He is the head of the Los Choneros gang, considered one of Ecuador's most dangerous criminal factions, and this is not the first time he has escaped.​
Adolfo Macias, aka "Fito," no longer sleeps in his cell in Guayaquil's Litoral prison where he was serving a 34-year sentence since 2011 for organized crime, drug trafficking and murder.​
According to local press, just before the army went to pick him up to transfer him to a maximum security prison, the 44-year-old prisoner fainted. More than 3,000 uniformed men searched unsuccessfully for him on the rooftops and even in the sewers of the prison.​
The authorities were slow to recognize the escape and initially considered the possibility that "Fito" had hidden inside the prison itself, which Los Choneros control.​
This Monday, the recently inaugurated president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared a 60-day state of emergency in the country due to the escape of "Fito" and the subsequent riots in several prisons.

Daniel Noboa ordered the Army to reestablish order in Ecuador and "neutralize" the armed gangs.

The President declared a state of "internal armed conflict" and assured: "I have ordered the Armed Forces to execute military operations to neutralize these groups".
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, declared in a decree the existence of an "internal armed conflict" in the country and ordered the Armed Forces to execute actions, after armed men took over the TC Television channel in the middle of a live broadcast.
"I have signed the executive decree declaring Internal Armed Conflict," Noboa wrote in a message on his X account (formerly Twitter) in which he noted that he has identified transnational organized crime groups "as terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors. ".


Prisoners begin to kill prison guides

Televisora TC de Guayaquil in Ecuador: In an unprecedented event several armed men kidnapped in the middle of a live television broadcast.


 
Hm, what's the possibility that this whole thing could be sort of a 'false flag'?

The gov 'removed' the guy, sent few of theirs to the TV station and other places to create high visibility mess and by doing so acquired a pretext for cracking down on everybody for 2 months for starters with the army on the streets. Meanwhile, guy's own gang that runs the prison where he was, went bonkers, which only gave additional fuel to the gov's 'cause'.

Just few thoughts and questions that came to mind when reading this thread so far.
 
Ecuador's Assembly offers amnesty to military and police to guarantee the country's security
In a statement issued by all the parties represented in Parliament, support was expressed for the Armed Forces and the National Police "in the preservation of security, peace and the life of the population".
📃 "This support includes the adoption of pardons and/or amnesties in the cases that are necessary to guarantee the task of these estates," the legislative body affirmed.

Conservative Daniel Noboa to be President of Ecuador for 17 months
Conservative businessman Daniel Noboa won the second round of elections in Ecuador and became president, thus completing the remaining 17 months of banker Guillermo Lasso's mandate and becoming the youngest head of state in the country's history.
With a brief participation in politics - barely two years as an assemblyman - Noboa obtained 52.30% of the votes against the progressive candidate Luisa Gonzalez, and thus won the presidency, the goal that his father, one of the richest men in the country and with five defeats at the polls, was never able to achieve.

The elections took place in the midst of a prevailing climate of violence and insecurity. Local criminality, transnational drug trafficking, surgical assassinations of politicians and also of "influencers", massacres between gangs in prisons, the free availability of weapons in territories and entire neighborhoods where the State only arrives in armed convoys of military and/or police, are a combo that it is no longer known how it will continue.
Heir to a banana empire, Daniel Noboa will become the youngest president in the history of Ecuador and the stone in the shoe of the former progressive president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), who aspired to return to power with Luisa Gonzalez.

Noboa's mandate will be short: he will complete Lasso's term until May 2025, when he could run for re-election to a new four-year term. But for this he will have to overcome the challenge of achieving an environment of governability, since the progressive Citizen Revolution, Correism, will once again be the first political force in the next legislature.
The businessman's only previous experience in politics was occupying a legislator's seat since 2021, when he chaired the Economic Development Commission. Noboa holds degrees in business administration and public administration from Harvard Kennedy School and a master's degree in governance and political communication.
Few believe that Daniel Noboa, exponent of the oligarchic interests that have controlled Ecuador for decades, will be able to end, in the year and a half that he will be in office, the institutional decomposition, the insecurity crisis and the persistent political unrest.
I get it now
The outlook opened by the result points to the continuation of corruption in the upper echelons of public life, the reduction of the state and public presence in the economy, dependence on Washington and political instability.
Noboa promised a tough hand against organized crime, offering to militarize ports, airports and Ecuador's main highways, as well as to retake control of the country's prisons, where criminal groups dominate.

The Phoenix Plan - as he calls the proposal to create a centralized intelligence and crime prevention system - has become his banner to confront the insecurity crisis that places the country among the most violent in the region with 4,600 intentional homicides in 2022. It contemplates the provision of technology and uniforms of high ballistic resistance, weapons, drones, facial recognition cameras, GPS. It has not specified with what resources this plan will be implemented.
The result should lead the progressive Citizen Revolution movement to a self-critical review of its two consecutive electoral defeats and its recomposition as a power alternative capable of bringing stability, peace, welfare and sovereignty to Ecuador, beyond caudillisms.
 
Curious
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte convenes an emergency Council of Ministers due to the crisis in Ecuador. Peruvian newspaper La República reports that the weapons and grenades used by terrorists in Ecuador belong to the Peruvian Armed Forces.

Otárola responds on alleged use of weapons with Peruvian Armed Forces insignia by criminals
Alberto Otárola, President of the Peruvian Council of Ministers, stated about the alleged use of weapons, by detained criminals, with insignia of the Peruvian Armed Forces. "An investigation is underway and for that purpose intelligence personnel will also go to our borders," he told the press.
 
More curious things
And the fact is that the donkey is not born surly, it is the accumulation of experiences.

We will see how things continue to turn out. But this country in the equation makes noise to me as well.

Ecuador's Noboa says unnamed criminal group has asked for peace deal-Reuters
QUITO, Dec 6 (Reuters) - A criminal gang in Ecuador has asked the government to agree to a peace deal and Israel will offer technical assistance for the country to take back control of its prison system, President Daniel Noboa said on Wednesday.

Ecuador is facing rising violence, including in prisons, attributed to drug-trafficking gangs amid deep financial troubles and high migration figures.
Prison violence is common in the country and has killed hundreds in recent years.

Noboa, a former legislator and the son of a prominent businessman, took office last month on pledges to reduce violence and create jobs via urgent legislative reforms.

He has said he will create a new intelligence unit, supply tactical weapons to security forces, employ prison boats and reinforce security at ports and airports, key points for drug shipments.
"We have captured leaders of criminal groups in recent weeks, from the most important (groups)," Noboa said during a live interview on social media. "One of the groups, (the identity of) which we will communicate, has even asked for a peace deal."

The letter asking for the deal is perhaps a sign criminal groups no longer have protection from state forces, Noboa said.
Judges and prosecutors who release captured criminals will have their names published publicly, he said, and Israel will help design maximum security prisons with separate spaces for those convicted of minor crimes.

While the new prisons are being built, the most dangerous convicts will be housed in prison boats, Noboa said, repeating a key campaign pledge. He added that he has already identified possible boats that could be brought to Ecuador for that use.
There will be an intervention in the Litoral penitentiary in Guayaquil, Noboa added. The prison has been the site of multiple violent incidents.

"We must win battles," he said.

Violent deaths in Ecuador could exceed 7,000 this year, a homicide rate of 35 per 100,000 people, according to a recent report from the Ecuadorean Organized Crime Observatory.
 
Could this refer to the C's statement that there would be more terrorization? It seems like more and more terror cells are awakening everywhere 😢
Without doubt

The interesting thing is that Israel is also present in some way. We see in Argentina a pro-Israeli government and in Ecuador as well, where the government is also eager to import the know-how of control in Gaza-type concentration camps or prisons.

This was published last year when Noboa was beginning his presidential term in Ecuador.​

Genocidal Zionism to arm Noboa's military state

In Palestine, more people have been executed in less time than in any other conflict of the 20th century. In a little more than two months, the equivalent of about 3 atomic bombs like those dropped on Hiroshima were unleashed on Palestine.

In the national context, the new banana president proposes the importation of the Zionist extermination model, pretending to build mega prisons in the style of El Salvador, to appease a problem created by and from which only the business class benefits: the great fortunes and drug trafficking routes. What does Ecuador pretend, importing the most genocidal model of the XXI century? Precisely, that the weapons and mechanisms of repression prove to have been tested in combat against a people occupied and massacred for more than seven decades.

The prison and humanitarian crisis in Ecuador's detention centers is alarming -about 800 executions in two years-, a scenario that worsens its perspective with the announcement of the elimination of the consumption table, made by Noboa just hours after his inauguration. The persecution and criminalization of poverty is already a characteristic of the judicial-prison system, which will be aggravated with the implementation of a redoubled securitization policy in the new Banana Republic. Once again, we see a Creole tycoon talking about punitivist solutions to an impoverished people subjected to an indescribable amount of structural violence. In no way has he even attempted to recognize the criminal structures involved within the State, and the ruling-exploiting class -the only beneficiary of the commercialization of alkaloids-, to which he more than belongs. On the contrary: he has decided to deepen the criminal punitivist alliance with the State of Israel, the USA and all the multinational lending agencies.

In Ecuador, and with only a few weeks in the presidency, the Noboa clan - with Daniel at the head - will impose a progressive militarization of the life, with the appointment of 10 former police and military as governors, an intensely punitivist discourse and a reaffirmation of the securitizationist policy of the banker-president. Although more moderate and disguised as green, Noboa's discourse does not differ in essence from the positions of Bukele in El Salvador, or even Milei in Argentina. The deepening of the free market and his criminal rhetoric against the working class are the same.

 
Well, the situation in Ecuador has been troublesome for some time now, I see it pop up in my news feed constantly, mostly with riots in jails. From what I know, this Noboa guy decided to run on a similar campaign as Bukele in El Salvador, that is a hard hand against organized crime, which worked for Bukele, but Ecuador might be a different story.

It is strange, that Noboa declares that the country is in a state of war, minutes before the whole Guayaquil situation broke, as if to justify his upcoming measures, or maybe it is coincidence. And then amnesty is given to the armed forces and police, so it's an all out war on these criminal elements, the trouble comes, as it always does, when these emergency powers are extended artificially for the sake of keeping said powers.

Peru has announced that it will be tightening security along the border with Ecuador, I suppose other countries in the region might follow suit and chaos will continue to ensue in the region. I think it's a bit early still, to tell what is going on in Ecuador, but as per usual, I think we will need to wait for the reactions of certain players to start to measure the amount of shenanigans taking place right now.
 
When watching the news about the ongoing border crisis that has been going on for years, you ask yourself: how many South Americans can there be left in S.America? They're all walking to the U.S..
What's going on in these countries? Well, they must be driven to migrate elsewhere.

But the scope of the reporting focuses on what U.S. politicians are doing about it in our country to accept them. There is little questioning as to why there is a mass exodus to the U.S. in the 1st place.

It's framed in a smaller context. So, it's interesting to see - and hopeful - that whatever is causing these migrants to walk all the way to America, is finally being faced by these countries, perhaps because we are at our limit to allow all these people - forcing them to make a stand against the corrupt govts. and businesses, and the exposure this brings to the source of why we have a migrant crisis.

Seeing those people act so aggressive on television, may be upsetting - and there is all kind of violence on the streets, but I think it was an attempt to draw attention to their plight, because they didn't kill anyone. And if the govt. is corrupt how can we take them at their word when the troubles in these countries have been hushed all during this migrant crisis? Then there are the drug cartels, that are mingled with the populace, so any kind of revolt can be cracked down on because there is corruption throughout, with desperate people in the middle of it all.

So, it drew the spotlight to the source and maybe that was the intention, but the populace will be demonized as gangsters, but we can ask: what else is not being told?
 
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