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| Ecuador drug violence: Six police wounded in prison riot |
| 2022-11-05 |
| [ALAHRAM] Six police were wounded Thursday in the latest prison riot to hit Ecuador, officials said, as the country is gripped by violence blamed on organized crime groups waging a deadly drug war. The six were hurt while trying to put down an uprising at the infamous Guayas 1 prison in southwestern port city Guayaquil, police said on Twitter. A source at the SNAI prison authority who asked not to be named told AFP that the police officers were confronted by inmates with guns and explosives. Ecuador -- once a relatively peaceful neighbor of major cocaine producers Colombia and Peru -- has seen a wave of violent crime that authorities blame on turf battles between gangs with ties to Mexican cartels. Civilians have increasingly been caught up in the bloodshed that has claimed more than 60 police lives since last year. Hundreds of inmates have died in Ecuador's overcrowded prisons since February last year -- many beheaded or burned as the gang war is waged also behind bars -- especially at Guayas 1. Widespread corruption among guards allows inmates to lay their hands on guns and explosives, among other contraband. Following attacks Tuesday in which five police officers and a civilian were killed, President Guillermo Lasso declared a state of emergency and nightly curfews in the western provinces of Guayas, of which Guayaquil is the capital, and Esmeraldas. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Whoops! The above was intended to be a response to Dron66046 in this thread. As far as I am aware, Mr. Wife has never dealt with any prison riots. Some locals took him to see an anti-Pinochet riot in Santiago, but that was apparently relatively civilized for such things. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-05 22:24 |
| #2 I now have questions to ask Mr. Wife, who generally doesn’t tell me enough detail to make me worry unnecessarily… |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-11-05 17:01 |
| #1 Deja vu all over again: "Ecuador jail riot: Anxiety, fear and little information - BBC … https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-58756916 Sep 30, 2021 · Relatives waited for news after police stormed the jail in Guayaquil where a deadly riot took place More than 100 inmates have been killed in a fight inside a prison… |
| Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 2022-11-05 08:50 |