In support of the police, whose presence also increased, according to the AFP, the soldiers armed with rifles and shotguns reinforced a security cordon around the prison. Guayas 1, despite the fact that there are no reports of new clashes.
Between Friday and Saturday, the inmates were confronted with firearms and explosives, despite the state of emergency that governs the overcrowded prisons of Ecuador, where this year the largest massacres in the history of Latin America have taken place.
The clashes broke out when one of the groups invaded Block 2 to kill members of an enemy gang, leaving 68 prisoners dead and 25 wounded, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
After reporting that on Saturday the violence momentarily spread to other blocks of the twelve that make up the prison, with no more reported victims, presidential spokesman Carlos Jijón closed the day stating that “the situation is under control” in jail with the intervention of 900 policemen.
The official pointed out that the president Guillermo Lasso He invited “sectors of civil society to begin organizing a dialogue inside the prison and to be able to stop the barbarism that is taking place.”
Previously, Pablo Arosemena, governor of the Guayas province, in whose jurisdiction is Guayaquil (southwestern Ecuador), described that “very intense bullet crosses” and a “savage situation” occurred.
Images released on social media show inmates setting bloody bodies on fire. In a live feed from Facebook, a prisoner pleads for help.
Lasso demanded the justice “suitable institutional tools” to face the prison emergency. He veiled criticism of the Constitutional Court for preventing the military from entering prisons.
With the restrictions imposed by the judges, the emergency measure will last until the end of this month.
The recent revolt seized the penitentiary in which 119 inmates died in September, in a cruel butchery with beheaded and burned people, and which led to the declaration of a state of exception for the prison system.
With the recent massacre, more than 320 people have died in Ecuador’s prisons so far this year.
The Prosecutor’s Office indicated in turn that it implemented a point of attention in the Criminalistics police department in Guayaquil to “assist and expedite the process of handing over bodies” to relatives of the deceased inmates.
The body in charge of prisons (SNAI), which has not updated the information, said on Saturday that inmates from prisons in three cities “refused to eat food” in “an apparent show of solidarity” with their comrades from Guayas 1 and they asked for peace through banners.
The Guayas 1 penitentiary is one of the most important in Ecuador, with 8,500 inmates and an overcrowding of 60%.
Rival gangs linked to drug trafficking are waging a bloody dispute in that prison, distributed in twelve pavilions. Authorities have identified at least seven groups, including the Choneros, Lobos, Tiguerones and Latin King.
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