All hostages that remained in the hands of prisoners in Ecuadorian prisons were released last night: 136 people, the prison administration said in a statement.
“That night, security protocols and the joint action of the police and the national army made it possible to release all the hostages held in various prisons in the country,” the statement said.
40 people were freed that night.
The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa He explained yesterday that to solve the problem of drug violence in Ecuador, the army and prisons are not enough, as in Nayib Bukele's El Salvador. “The way to solve the problem is Ecuador’s, not El Salvador’s. We will take strict action against terrorism and corruption, but we also think about the growth of employment and the economy, we need a little more security to make the country sustainable,” Noboa said in an interview with the BBC. The Ecuadorian President then took stock of the events of the last week, marked by the spiral of violence unleashed by drug groups, culminating in the decision to declare a state of “internal armed conflict” and the mobilization of all armed forces in the territory . “We cannot play into the hands of these terrorists,” he said. Noboa then reiterated his intention to reform the prison system and build two new “maximum and highest security” prisons capable of housing over 3,000 prisoners in conditions of near isolation. “What we want to establish in Ecuador is a new security system that will allow us safe havens and different border control,” he concluded.
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