President Guillermo Lasso “He accepted the resignation” of both the head of the joint command, Vice Admiral Jorge Cabrera, as well as the director of the body in charge of prisons (SNAI), Bolívar Garzón, the communication secretariat of the presidency said in a statement.
The president made those decisions in a meeting with the ministers of Government (Interior) and Defense as well as with the military and police chiefs to “determine the main actions to continue taking in the face of the prison situation,” the text added.
Lasso appointed General Orlando Fuel, who held the post of Army commander, as the new head of the joint command, and entrusted Marlo Brito, currently head of the state Strategic Intelligence Center (CIES), to lead the SNAI.
On Sunday, the Ecuadorian military strengthened their force outside the main prison in Guayaquil in which 68 prisoners died on Saturday, in a massacre described by the government as “barbarism”, with bodies burned and macheted.
The Lasso executive emphasized that in all prisons “order and control are maintained; and activities are carried out normally” after a prison massacre that is added to the one that drug trafficking gangs carried out in September with 119 deaths.
Between the night of Friday and Saturday, inmates were confronted with firearms and explosives despite the state of emergency that governs the overcrowded prisons in Ecuador, where this year some of the largest massacres in Latin American prison history.
In the most recent, clashes broke out when one of the gangs invaded Block 2 to kill members of an enemy group, leaving 68 prisoners dead and 25 wounded, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The new revolt occurred in the midst of a state of exception for the prison system decreed by Lasso following the massacre of 119 prisoners in September, which mobilized the military towards the prisons.
However, the Constitutional court It limited this measure by preventing the entry of soldiers to the prisons. With the restrictions imposed by the judges, the state of emergency will last until the end of this month.
There are already more than 320 dead in Ecuadorian prisons so far this year.
Source From: Ambito
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