Ricardo Baluga, ambassador in Ecuador, spoke with Radio Sarandí and assured that, so far, the embassy office has received 20 queries regarding Uruguayans travelers or residents of that country. Most of the queries referred to land travel restrictions due to the curfew installed in that country between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
“Yesterday Uruguayans traveled from Quito outwards,” Baluga explained, recalling that this conflict is not similar to that of the indigenous uprising of June 2022 where the airports were closed.
On the other hand, the ambassador explained that 24 hours have passed since the decree signed by the government classifying the situation as an internal armed conflict. So far, 329 alleged suspects have been arrested. terrorists and people also recovered kidnapped and were recaptured prisoners.
Baluga is located in the Ecuador three years ago and went through three different governments. According to the hierarch, the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, It has a focus on security where it classifies as terrorists all those groups responsible for acts of violence.
The support of the Executive to Noboa
The government of Luis Lacalle Pou expressed his solidarity with the government of Daniel Noboa in Ecuador. In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairsthe Executive condemned “the acts of violence caused by organized crime groups in several cities in the country, in defiance of public order and the rule of law.”
“Uruguay ensures the prompt reestablishment of internal order within the strict framework of the current institutional framework that allows the recovery of the citizen coexistence and the full restitution of individual rights and freedoms,” the text adds.
In Ecuador At least 500 Uruguayans reside there, confirmed Ambit with Foreign Ministry sources. The Uruguayan embassy in that country is on alert, monitoring the development of events and available to fellow citizens in that country.
Likewise, it established assistance and information lines for Uruguayans who are in Ecuador, who can contact (+593) 99 239 2429 or by email at [email protected]. Family members who are in Uruguay can do so through [email protected].
The death toll from the crisis in Ecuador rises to 10
The episodes of violence recorded in the last 48 hours in Ecuador left 10 dead, the Police reported, hours after the declaration by the Noboa government of “internal armed conflict”a measure that allowed the total mobilization of the Armed forces Throughout the national territory.
There were “eight people killed” in attacks in the port of Guayaquilwhile two police officers were “vilely murdered by armed criminals” in the nearby town of Nobol, he added.
He Mariscal Sucre International Airportin Quitoreported today that in the face of the crisis new measures will be implemented, such as prohibiting entry to the terminal to anyone who does not carry “their travel documents, that is, passport or citizenship card and air ticket or boarding pass.”
Noboa signed an executive decree on Tuesday declaring “internal armed conflict,” in the midst of the Exception status for 60 days that he had decreed on Monday, when the kidnapping of police officers, attacks on the press and prison riots began.
The 36-year-old president also ordered the Armed Forces to “carry out military operations to neutralize” about twenty criminal groups whom he called “terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors”.
For two days Ecuador has been experiencing days of terror as a result of the escape of Adolfo Maciasalias Fito, head of The Chonerosthe main criminal gang in the country, who was held in a prison in Guayaquil.
On the same Monday, while the authorities were deployed to deal with the criminal events unleashed throughout the country, Fabricio Colón Pico, one of the bosses of the criminal group The Wolvesescaped from prison Riobambawhere he was held in preventive detention for the crime of kidnapping, although he was also a man of high interest for having been accused, by the State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, of having threatened her.
In the midst of the outbreak that was felt in several cities such as Quito, seven police officers were kidnapped, there were explosions against a police station and in front of the home of the president of the Supreme Court of Justice and vehicles were set on fire. Three of the uniformed men “have been released and placed in safe custody,” reported the Police by X.
In prisons in five locations there are 139 guards and administrative officials held by prisoners, said the agency in charge of prisons (SNAI).
Located in the middle of Colombia and Peruthe world’s largest producers of cocaine, Ecuador It went from being an island of peace to a drug war fort. 2023 closed with more than 7,800 homicides and 220 tons of drugs seized, new records in the nation of 17 million inhabitants.
Source: Ambito
