The former president of Ecuador shared a video where he acknowledged that “the country is living a true nightmare” and that it is time for “national unity.” “The State must win,” remarked the former president.
In the midst of a new wave of violence in different cities in EcuadorThe ex-president Rafael Correa shared a video where he put aside his political differences with the current president, Daniel Noboaand offered his “total and unrestricted support.”
Correa expressed that “The country is living a true nightmare” and considered that the current scenario was “something unthinkable very recently.” He attributed the crisis to the “systematic destruction of the rule of law, to the errors and hatred accumulated over the last seven years”, in reference to 2015, the year in which his presidency began. In that sense, He pointed out that his Government was “one of the main victims” of the factors listed above.
However, he acknowledged that “today is a time of national unity“. “Organized crime has declared war on the State and the State must prevail, the State must win,” he emphasized.
“President Daniel Noboa, have all our total and unrestricted support. Please don’t give in. “Any mistake, our political discrepancies, we will discuss the day after the victory,” said the former president, leaving aside his differences with the current administration.
Finally, he closed his message with a hopeful tone: “The country will win again. Until victory always, compatriots,” he concluded.
Violence in Ecuador: attack on a television channel and state of emergency
The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, signed today a decree that declares the country in a state of “internal armed conflict” and orders the Armed Forces to “carry out military operations to neutralize” the actions of twenty criminal gangs, in the middle of a new wave of violence in the main cities of the country.
The president’s decision came shortly after men with rifles and grenades raided the TC Television studios, the public channel of Guayaquil, on the Ecuadorian coast, and one day after decreeing the state of siege due to the escape from prison of the head of one of the largest criminal gangs in the countryidentified with the alias Fito, to which was later added another escape by the leader of another group, as well as other acts of violence.
The executive decree reforms the current state of emergency and recognizes the existence of an internal armed conflict, thus providing for the mobilization and immediate intervention of the Armed Forces and the Police in the national territory.
Source: Ambito
