Violence shows no signs of abating in Ecuador, where, ten days after declaring a state of emergency and declaring an internal armed conflict, drug dealers have allowed themselves the luxury of successfully trapping one of the country's most prominent prosecutors at the moment: César Suárez kills him, while he is driving in Guayaquil. The judge was at the forefront of all the local media, having been given the delicate task of investigating the spectacular attack by an armed commando days ago at the headquarters of the TC television station in the Ecuadorian industrial city. The broadcast was in progress.
According to a relative, Suárez died after falling into a trap set by someone that caused him to leave the house to go to a place where he should have received useful information for his work . Instead, as he was driving after leaving the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters, he was intercepted on a road north of Guayaquil by hitmen in a fake taxi who gave him no escape and fired at least 18 shots from weapons of different calibers.
In response to this latest criminal challenge and in the belief that the instigators of the prosecutor's murder might be there, a thousand men of police and army broke into the Guayaquil regional prison, the largest in the entire country, for the fourth time in a few days , arrest of two prisoners who are accused of complicity. Then, in a news conference, security forces revealed two more major arrests of members of Los Chone Killer, one of 22 criminal gangs under review by President Daniel Noboa's government.
Without going into details, the commander of Police Zone 8, General Víctor Herrera, stated that there were two suspected occupants of the fake taxi from which the shots were fired at the judge. However, the tug of war between institutions and crime is likely to continue for a long time, although 1,753 people have been arrested so far under the government's Fenix security plan, 158 of whom have been charged with links to groups related to terrorism.
Ecuador, once an exemplary oasis of peace in Latin America, has in recent years descended into a spiral of violence that the state has been unable to contain, coupled with a boom in drug trafficking caused by Mexican and Colombian cartels as well as international mafias.
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