Ecuador declares ‘internal armed conflict’ after series of violent attacks | DW News

Ecuador declares ‘internal armed conflict’ after series of violent attacks | DW News

Ecuadorian president Daniel Noba says his country is in a state of internal armed conflict he’s ordered the Army to take military action against drug gangs in the country on Tuesday armed men stormed a live TV show before being overpowered and arrested by police security forces are out in force on the

Streets as well Ecuador has been rocked by a series of violent attacks including the Abduction of a number of police officers the outbreak of violence followed the apparent escape from prison of a drug cartel leader on Sunday adalo makas also known as fito was serving a 34-year sentence for murder and narcotics

Trafficking and for more on this developing story let’s bring in DW’s Nicole riss who joins us from neighboring bogot in columia now the president has declared a state of internal armed conflict but what exactly does that mean aarin what we are watching here unfold in these past few hours is really

Unprecedented for Ecuador this is just another low in the whole security crisis that uh the country has been enduring these past years really and president Daniel no really is trying to crack down on the situation is trying to get it back under control um this declaration uh is basically enabling military and

Also police forces to be increased on the streets they’re able to intervene not only on the streets but also to crack down inside of buildings and this is uh happening as we are speaking King NOOA in his declaration also said that he wants to uh and his words neutralize

More than 20 of the criminal gangs in the country he only took office in November so this is his first really severe security crisis and this was also one of his main promises that he’s going to crack down on criminal activities and violence in the country in the meantime

The situation at the TV station has been resolved the perpetrators the attackers have been arrested and they may be uh getting charges for teror terrorism as well there have also been reported some incidents at the University of guil for example with armed individuals so uh activities at the University but also at

Other educational institutions have been suspended until Friday so we’re talking about a very tense situation here uh also a bit um chaotic we don’t know what is happening when exactly but uh basically uh NOOA is declar teing war on these criminal gangs on the violence in

The country and it is very unclear how the situation will unfold in the upcoming hours or also uh in the upcoming days because this is not only uh a moment in time this is probably going to develop further now as you said yourself these attacks are unprecedented

And they’re more the type of attacks we typically see from Terror groups do we know exactly what these gangs are attempting to achieve with these attacks it is yet a bit unclear what they wanted to achieve exactly this seems to be a reaction to recent uh Declarations of uh state of emergency

For example that came late Friday Also The Disappearance of feto one of the gang members that you just mentioned there um and also this is a game of power a game of control they’re obviously trying to show who is in control of the country lately it seemed

More that criminal gangs are in control of the country and lots of the drug operations that have been increasing in these past few years actually also being operate for operated from inside of Prisons so there have been very violent incidents over this past year for example in prisons that are in

Connection with drug trafficking with u criminal um organization and uh they have links to cartels in Mexico they have also links to drug or organizations here in Colombia and actually people here in Colombia find that Ecuador is right now experien a situation that they have seen also in the 1980s for example

With their war on gang crime and drug trafficking which was very severe and very traumatic for the country that was DW’s Nicole riss I’m afraid we’re going have to leave it there thank you very much for your reporting for

Ecuador has been rocked by a series of violent attacks including the abduction of a number of police officers. Security forces are out in force on the streets.

The outbreak of violence followed the apparant escape from prison of a drug cartel leader on Sunday. Adolfo Macias, also known as ‘Fito,’ was serving a 34 year sentence for murder and narcotics trafficking.

Ecuadorian president Daniel Noboa says his country is in a state of ‘internal armed conflict.’ He’s ordered the army to take military action against drugs gangs in the country.

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00:00 The outbreak of violence in Ecuador
00:40 Nicole Ris, DW Correspondent

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