Ecuador: President grants the police and military powers after Guayaquil attack

Ecuador: President grants the police and military powers after Guayaquil attack

cnn - the Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has preventive Begnadigungen Police officers and military members who reacted to an armed attack, in which at least 22 people were killed yesterday in the southern city of Guayaquil.

"We need that you are determined and are not afraid of reprisals," wrote Noboa in a post on X on Friday morning. "Defend the country, I'll defend you."

repeated pardon and security crisis in Ecuador

This is not the first time that the increasingly hard course of Noboa security personnel who fights against crime in Ecuador offers pardons even before they have been used or accused of crime.

cnn en español contacted the president's office in order to obtain clarity about the scope of the pardon.

Details on the attack in Guayaquil

The attack in Guayaquil occurred on Thursday afternoon in three different locations in the city and demanded at least 22 dead and six injuries, as the authorities announced to CNNE.

"First Reports" indicate that the attack from a profit distribution dispute between different factions of the criminal gang Los Tiguerones resulted in according to a declaration passed on by the police.

"Several history of the dead and injured have a history in robberies, drug trafficking and gun ownership," the police officers wrote.

arrests and raids after the attack

The Ecuadorian authorities searched through the night and early morning after the attack "Several apartments", arrested 14 people and confiscated weapons and ammunition, as the Ministry of Defense Ecuadors in a Post announced on X on Friday.

violent epidemic in Guayaquil

Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, suffers seriously from the persistent violence heated by drugs. In 2024, the city recorded almost 2,000 murder cases, as the government statistics show.

Noboa’s measures against the security crisis

Noboa has tried since taking office in 2023 to counteract the spiral security crisis in Ecuador by proclaiming several emergency stands and classifying 22 criminal organizations as terrorist groups, which have criticized some human rights groups at home and abroad.

outlook for the upcoming elections

Instability in Ecuador, which is heated by international drug trafficking, is the background of Noboa's election campaign for a second term this year. He failed to secure a clear majority in the first election of the parliamentary elections.

A second round of elections in the coming months will decide whether the Latin American Land Noboas will keep an alternative voice in the left -wing candidate Luisa González.