About 140 prison officers have been taken hostage by prisoners in a riot in at least five prisons in the country. The Bundeswehr has assured this in the last 24 hours 329 suspected terrorists were arrested, 5 were killed and 28 were recaptured.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa (who has been in office less than two months) is facing an unprecedented wave of violence Attacks by drug trafficking groups on police and prison officers, and attacks on hospitals, schools, universities and police stations.
The spiral of violence is concentrated primarily in Guayaquil, whose 2.6 million affected residents have even normalized and have escape routes in case they are attacked by one of these criminal groups.
The National Assembly of Ecuador unanimously and consistently supports the security measures announced by President Noboa, which include the state of emergency and the declaration of an internal armed conflict.
Neighboring countries are protecting themselves from the wave of violence in Ecuador
Neighboring countries have decided to shield themselves so that the violence spreads beyond Ecuador's borders. For example, The Peruvian army is monitoring critical points on the border and has also declared a 60-day state of emergency in five border regions.. For its part, the Colombian government rejects President Noboa's proposal to deport 1,500 Colombian prisoners as part of the first measures in the internal armed conflict and is stationing almost 180 soldiers on the border with Ecuador. And El Salvador is seen as a “role model to follow” after ordering numerous surprise searches of its prisons.