Clashes between rival criminal groups took away the lives of 14 people last weekend to the port -city of Ecuador Guayakil, an epicenter of the bloody struggle for power between gangs of the People's Commissar, police said on Monday.
In one of the incidents, the militants on motorcycles were released into a crowd collected near the grocery store, killed by a child and six adults, said Santiago police chief, warning of possible “repression”.
Video in the social media consequences of the attack showed shocking images of bodies lying on the street in northern Guayakila.
Tustan said that the massacre – the exact motive of which was not divorced – brought up to 14 people who died in Guayakil over the weekend. He did not submit details of other murders.
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Guayakil-capital of the Southwestern province of Guas, where a state of emergency has been operating since January when the authorities are fighting for the curtailment of spiral violence in the once-intended South American country.
According to estimates, 20 criminal groups participating in trade, abductions and extortions, by drawing chaos in the country out of 18 million, which are squeezed between the world's largest producers, Peru and Colombia.
In recent years, the nation has been immersed in the violence of the rapid spread of transnational cartels that use their ports – especially in Guayakile – to send drugs to the US and Europe.
In 2018, in 2018, in 2018, in 2018, it increased from six to 100,000 inhabitants.
According to the emergency and military crackdown, launched by President Daniel Nobo, since November 2023, this figure fell to 38 by 100,000 last year. In January 2024 NOBOA announced The state of the “internal armed conflict” After a fierce wave of violence that caused Jailbreak a powerful criminal boss.
Last Friday, The hitmen shot the columnL, which managed drug control in another part of Port City. Police said Colonel Portyrio Sedeno, who headed the special aircraft operations department, was a passenger in a minibus that led him to the military ceremony.
NOBOA is looking for a new term in the election, which will go to the drain in April after last Sunday, the unconvincing first round saw his narrow Pip Louise Gonzalez.
Last weekend, the president replaced his Interior Minister and replaced her with the general police of Faust Buene, who has many years of experience fighting the People's Commissar.
Last month the military said Leader of one of Ecuador's largest criminal syndicateLos -Lobas, was arrested in his home in the coastal city of Portovio. A US Last year announced Los -Lobas Being the largest drug trafficking in Ecuador.