Ecuador: State of emergency declared after notorious drug gang boss escapes from prison | BBC News

The president has declared a state of emergency to deal with a wave of riots and Crackdown on drug traffickers president Daniel naoa ordered the armed forces and police to take control of the country’s prisons 3,000 soldiers and police have been searching for Ecuador’s most powerful uh drug lord who’s the

Boss of the criminal Group Los Chelos who disappeared from a Maximum Security Prison on Sunday well our special in this area is Mimi SBE who is with me now in the studio it sounds like chaos what’s going on tell us more it is chaos indeed the president has declared the

60-day National Emergency including an overnight curfew and this is after riots erupted by inmates in six of the nation’s jails and escape from prison of this convicted criminal leader Jose Alo Maas fador also known as fto much more easily now this signing of the decree has basically allowed authorities to

Carry out search and rescue operations in this Manhunt to try and find Ecuador’s most dangerous and most wanted criminal as he is the leader of the Los CH Renos now that is a very powerful very um large gang in the country and one which has a lot of control in the

Area but also inside the prison so people are wondering if that has some influence and how he escaped the authorities have said that this Gang has links to extortion murder drug trafficking a whole range of crimes but it has said it is in control of Ecuador’s main prisons so what do we

Think will happen next because it sounds like you know the president of e Ecuador has declared a state of emergency he’s trying desperately to gain control but will he well 3,000 police officers and soldiers are currently scouring Ecuador trying to find this cartel leader this is a serious security crisis and The

Escape of feto is somewhat of an embarrassment for this president who only took office in November vowing to tackle Gang Related crime and this surge of violence especially Gang Related violence now in the recent years Ecuador has been plagued its overcrowded prisons have been plagued by feuds between um violent feuds between rival

Gang members who are incarcerated and this has often resulted in really bloody massacres of inmates authorities have said that actually more than 400 inmates have died in such clashes since 2021 so a huge huge number and this violence Surge and violence isn’t just inside the prisons but also outside and this is

Because um there’s fighting between drug cartels over control of cocaine roots to the US and to Europe so there’s a huge swell of violence which is this reasonably new president is desperately trying to quell and regain some control as why he’s finally and really panicked stated this um state of emergency okay

Mimi thank you so much indeed for dating us on that situation something we’ll keep a close eye on

A 60-day state of emergency is taking place in Ecuador after a convicted gang leader vanished from his prison cell.

Adolfo Macías Villamar, better known as “Fito”, is the leader of Los Choneros, a powerful gang which is thought to have been behind some of the deadly prison riots in recent months.

He was being held in the maximum security wing of a jail in Guayaquil.

The emergency measures include the suspension of the right of assembly and a nightly curfew.

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  10. It's really a shame in the modern world we don't have a simple structure of principles that all countries must follow internationally to ensure these kind of problems aren't given a chance to develop the oversight should be responsibility of all countries to make sure we all together have a better world to live in regardless of what system you have we need global core principles that everyone can agree to and be accountable for. Real support is needed and internationally audited with actual powers to remove those who are breaking the basic core principles of established and developing nations.

  11. Bbc everyone knows that u and the rest of western media lie no one listens or believes u in gaza its a genocide u truly well know but i dont like saying it guess what u and the rest of western media r slowly getting boycotted the word is out people will end paying tv licience u will get closed down u and the rest r fake news people know what u and the rest of news channels have been doing palestinians have been suffering for 75 years u never used to report that people know the true colors of news channels they have blood on there hands u r as well the cause of wars spreading lies

  12. How could this be an embarrassment for a president who took office just 2 months ago? She doesn't even know the correct names. I'm Polish who lives in Ecuador for 10 years now, this situation has been building up for since the pandemic and this president is a non-politic who is a long awaited hope for some action. After a big crackdown on corruption among high officials, he now is trying to solve this problem crime problem. What I think they should do is to strengthen the border with Colombia to starve those gangs.

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