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2024-01-11 Caribbean-Latin America

How Ecuador plunged into gang violence, sparking armed internal conflict, emergency

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Posted by Fred 2024-01-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [25 views ] Top
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#1 Rarely is the underlying unhappy racial component, especially in Guayaquil, reported on: "GENEVA / QUITO (23 December 2019) —The Government of Ecuador must step up efforts to enforce the law and implement plans to end racial discrimination suffered by Afro-Ecuadorians and people of African descent, a group of UN human rights experts* has concluded after visiting the country. “People are suffering particularly in their ability to access justice, security, land, clean water, education, healthcare, housing and economic opportunity,” said the chair of the UN Working Group on People of African Descent, Ahmed Reid, presenting a statement at the end of the visit. “Only 7.2% of the population are Afro-Ecuadorians, but they make up 40% of those living in poverty..."

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-01-11 09:07|| 2024-01-11 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 This is the scariest city I have ever visited. In 30 years of reporting I have never felt so unsafe. Inside the epicentre of Ecuador's blood-soaked gang war where assassins are as young as 12 and you never know who to trust

Never been to Chicago or DC, eh?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-11 09:25|| 2024-01-11 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 #2Been to Chicago, no sweat. FYI: The Conversation, Dec 17, 2017. "A second critique of racism in Mexico is that yes, it exists, but it is not as bad as in other places in the region, like Brazil or the United States. Our study runs contrary to that argument. Among nations surveyed in the Americas Barometer, Mexico ranks fourth in terms of the negative impact of skin-tone on an individual’s wealth, behind Bolivia, Uruguay and Ecuador. On the relationship between race and lower levels of education, Mexico moves up one spot to trail only Ecuador and Trinidad and Tobago. Indeed, the sole place in the Americas where people of color seem to fare worse overall than in Mexico is Ecuador, where Americas Barometer data shows that having dark skin reduces educational achievement by one year more than it does in Mexico.

Posted by Huputle Cherelet4131 2024-01-11 13:31|| 2024-01-11 13:31|| Front Page Top

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