Wave of violence resurfaces in Ecuador weeks after the state of emergency expires. Photo: PL

A new wave of

breaks out in

with two weeks left until the state of emergency decreed by the president, Daniel Noboa, ends.

The city of Guayaquil had a violent early morning with at least 13 criminal events, according to the mayor, Aquiles Álvarez, through his X account.

occurred

in the Regional Prison of that coastal city in the province of Guayas, where at least one person died and four were injured, according to unofficial information.

Videos spread on social networks showed

in cells of the penitentiary institution and detonations of firearms were heard.

Meanwhile, two vehicles were set on fire at the entrance to the city of Sucre, north of the province of Manabí, near the Miguel H. Alcívar hospital.

The first police reports indicate that one of the vehicles belonged to a municipal official from the town of Manabi.

Sucre is one of the cantons where there is a struggle for micro and drug trafficking territories between the criminal gangs Los Choneros and Los Lobos.

On March 7, President Noboa extended for another 30 days the state of emergency that he decreed last January after a series of violent acts in several cities in the country.

The text included the control of all deprivation of liberty centers and the validity of the curfew differentiated by municipalities depending on the risk levels in the midst of the internal armed conflict also declared in this South American nation.

With the declaration of a state of emergency and internal armed conflict, Noboa opened a legal door for the military and police to act together with all their resources to neutralize the 22 criminal groups classified as terrorists.

However, with the military in the streets and taxes to finance the so-called internal war against

, terror persists, with kidnappings, extortion,

threats and

.

(Taken from Prensa Latina)