According to preliminary data, one dead and four wounded riot on Wednesday evening jail Coastal City Regional Guayaquil, happened while staying in Ecuador A state of emergency is in effect, the vice minister said Safety, Lionel Calderon.
Although he stated that the situation in this penitentiary center is under control, the official clarified on the TV channel TVmazons that we still have to wait for a “complete revision of the entire penitentiary center“.
“We cannot say at the moment that this is all that happened, we can only say that the situation is completely under control,” he emphasized.
Apparently, the prisoners protested against this treatment. military were given in the presence Armed forces inside the prison.
Early this Thursday, relatives of prisoners stationed outside the prison with white balloons demanded information about their relatives and sprayed water on military trucks present in the area in protest.
Calderon noted that “the riot and its escalation were completely suppressed in record time, just over 2 hours,” and recalled that control of prisons is “complex” and must be carried out in several stages.
He said they were still investigating to determine who was responsible for Wednesday’s riot, without saying whether the victims were inmates or prison officials.
“Destabilizing actions”
When asked whether the unrest could be related to parallel events on Wednesday, such as fire three vehicles and a gas station in Guayaquil, among other things, Calderon assured that the situation must be seen in context.
“These are destabilizing attempts on the part of Law supremacy, democracy, because we are on the eve referendum which is aimed at solving problems security: extradition, toughening penalties for serious crimes” and others.
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He stated that in the midst of internal armed conflict and the “historic struggle against organized crime belonging narco-terrorism”, The unfolding actions “entail destabilizing actions.”
“It is no coincidence that today, when some early testimony is to be given in a very important case, such situations begin to arise. These events are not isolated; we are on the eve of a national poll (April 21), the axis of which is attention to problems safety which crosses the Ecuadorian state,” he repeated.
He added that a plan has already been developed to strengthen it in each of the places where unrest usually begins to occur and “the situation is under control.”
Regional prison
The Guayaquil regional prison was one of the most targeted by terrorists. Police and the Armed Forces during a state of emergency, with repeated operations to seize weapons and items prohibited to prisoners.
He escaped from this prison at the end of December – beginning of January of the previous year. drug dealer Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar (“Fito”), gang leader Choneros, who was serving a 34-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, unlawful association and murder.
Before the start of the state exception Choneros, the largest and oldest criminal group in Ecuador, said they controlled the inside of the prison, where they charged prisoners for the type of cell they used as well as for food, among other elements of a wide extortion network, according to witnesses.
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The prison complex is part of the prison complex in the coastal province of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil, where there are five prisons housing approximately 12,000 inmates.
Regional, officially named Guayas Social Rehabilitation Center No. 4, It is the second largest prison in Ecuador, housing approximately 4,500 inmates, second only to its neighboring prison. jail belonging Coast, about 5,500 prisoners.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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