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Cartel hitmen utilized a food photo posted on Instagram to hunt down an Ecuadorian beauty queen and murder her in broad daylight, according to police. Investigators believe that the 23-year-old model was gunned down because of her previous relationship with a married drug lord.
I’ve always said don’t post to social media in real time.
Clueless dumbass: “Look at me, I’m drunk at this bar right now”
The world: “ so no one is at your home and you’re drunk and vulnerable…hmmmm”
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[ 📹 Ecuadorian drug traffickers take prison guards and police officers hostage and assassinate them on camera in a series of coordinated attacks across the South American country.]
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ECUADOR ERUPTS INTO VIOLENCE AND CHAOS AFTER CARTELS DECARE "WAR ON THE STATE", ARMED FORCES OF ECUADOR DEPLOY TROOPS
A State of Emergency was declared by the Ecuadorian President after a series of terrorist attacks, prison riots and kidnappings exploded into a day of chaos, after drug cartels declared "War on the State".
After a series of explosions, abductions of police officers, prison riots, the escape of a notorious gang leader from a high-security prison, and the storming of a live-tv broadcast of channel TC by gang members waving firearms and accosting television crews, the President of Ecuador declared a State of Emergency Wednesday, determining 22 of the nation's most prominent gangs to be terrorist organizations, announcing that the South American country was experiencing "internal armed conflict," and issueing a decree that included a curfew, which the gangs immediately violated.
Videos showing prison guards being subdued and killed have gone viral, while the search for "The Cheneros" gang leader, Jose Macias (aka Fito), goes on as the elusive criminal with ties to Mexican cartels evades capture.
Meanwhile, an explosive device was detonated in the vicinity of the residence of Ecuadorian Supreme Court President, Ivan Saquicela, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, and several police officers have been kidnapped across the country.
Riots also broke out in several cities, with scenes of running crowds escaping explosions and gunfire, cars burning in the streets, the looting of warehouses, and the destruction of public infrastructure.
Several videos have also gone viral showing the assassination of police officers and prison guards.
The rioting Ecuadorian criminal organizations killed two police officers, Corporals Alex Taday and Luis Guanotuña in Nobol, located in the Guayas province.
In response to the violence, the Armed Forces of Ecuador have been mobilized, with troops deploying in several cities across the country in areas where riots and looting have broken out over the last day.
Reports from Ecuadorian Forces say more than 70 people tied to the violence and others with links to criminal enterprises have been detained, while three police officers being held hostage have been released.
The Armed Forces of Ecuador also added that 17 escaped prisoners were re-captured, adding that they had also seized weapons, ammunition and explosives from the armed groups.
Meanwhile, the Ecuadorian legislature announced blanket pardons and amnesties related to operations targeting the drug traffickers.
The President's decree determined the following organizations to be "terrorist organizations and belligerent non-state actors":
Aguilas, AguilasKiller, Ak47, Caballeros Oscuros, ChoneKiller, Choneros, Corvicheros, Cuartel de las Feas, Cubanos, Fatales, Ganster, Kater Piler, Lagartos, Latin Kings, Los Lobos, Los p.27, Los Tiburones, Mafia 18, Mafia Trebol, Patrones, R7 and Tiguerones.
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QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — A bomb threat sent an anti-explosives unit scrambling into a bustling area of Ecuador’s tense capital Thursday while authorities in an eastern city reported a nightclub arson killed two people as the South American country staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug gangs.
Police in the capital, Quito, said they evacuated people from the area surrounding the Playón de la Marín bus station when they were alerted about a backpack with an alleged explosive placed in a garbage can.
The backpack turned out to not have any explosives, authorities said, but it followed five similar incidents in the capital Wednesday with actual explosives. Those bombs — in two vehicles, at a pedestrian bridge and near a prison — caused minor damage but no deaths or injuries.
Meanwhile, authorities said unknown suspects set fire to a nightclub in the Amazon city of Coca, killing at least two people and injuring nine others. The blaze, which spread to 11 nearby stores, is under investigation, officials said.
Ecuador is in the grips of a crime wave tied to drug trafficking gangs. Ecuadoreans worry the violence will only escalate in a country where a presidential candidate was assassinated last year.
President Daniel Noboa, who earlier this week declared an emergency and a virtual war on the gangs by authorizing the military to act against them, said Thursday that Ecuador needs “tougher laws, honest judges” and the possibility of extraditing dangerous criminals in order to fight terrorism and organized crime.
“We are not going to let a group of terrorists stop the country,” Noboa said in a recorded message sent to media outlets in which he also presented the design of two new prisons. He said the corrections system has been “controlled by mafias” for decades and is in urgent need of new facilities.
Noboa said prisons will be built in two provinces and each will have super-, maximum- and high-security units and will be equipped with technology to block cellphone and satellite signals. He previously said the new prisons would be ready in 10 to 11 months.
Many people are staying at home and schools and stores have been shuttered as soldiers patrol the streets of Ecuador’s biggest cities.
Tensions heightened Tuesday when a group of men wielding explosives and guns invaded a television station’s live afternoon newscast in Guayaquil, the Pacific port city that has been the epicenter of a surge in violence that began roughly three years ago. Ecuadorians watched as the intruders threatened and assaulted employees at the station. No one was killed and 13 suspects were arrested, but the violent broadcast stunned much of the region.
Ecuadorian authorities attribute the country’s spike in violence to a power vacuum prompted by the killing in 2020 of Jorge Zambrano, alias “Rasquiña” or “JL,” the then-leader of the local Los Choneros gang. Members carry out contract killings, run extortion operations, move and sell drugs, and rule prisons.
Ecuador’s neighbors, Colombia and Peru, are the world’s largest cocaine producers. Los Choneros, one of the country’s most violent gangs, and similar groups linked to Mexican and Colombian cartels are fighting over drug-trafficking routes and control of territory, including in prisons, where more than 450 inmates have been slain since 2021.
A February 2021 riot among rival gang members at Ecuador’s most violent prison left at least 79 inmates dead. The following September, 116 inmates were killed in another gang battle at the same Litoral prison, with several of them beheaded.
The violence has spread from prisons to the streets, turning the once-peaceful Ecuador into one of the most violent countries in the region. Last year was Ecuador’s bloodiest on record, with more than 7,600 homicides, up from 4,600 in the prior year.
Gang members in prisons throughout the country have taken corrections personnel hostage since Sunday, when the current leader of Los Choneros vanished from prison.
On Thursday, inmates managed to increase to 178 the number of corrections personnel they are holding hostage, according to the prisons agency. A union that represents prison employees has asked officials to guarantee the “physical and psychological integrity” of the hostages.
Noboa, who took office in November, won a special presidential election with the promise of reducing the terrifying, drug-driven crime wave within 1 1/2 years in office. His anti-crime campaign proposals range from turning ships into floating jails to getting police more equipment.
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Ecuadorian military won the 1st battle against the cartel and gangs, they freed every single hostage and neutralized more than 1000 cartel members Bukele style
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How cartel hitman used a food pic to hunt down Ecuadorian beauty queen and brazenly murder her in broad daylight | Blaze Media
https://www.theblaze.com/news/how-cartel-hitman-used-a-food-pic-to-hunt-down-ecuadorian-beauty-queen-and-brazenly-murder-her-in-broad-daylight
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Mexican cartels flood Ecuador's drug gangs with 'unlimited money' to fuel carnage
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By KIA FATAHI21:37, Fri, Jan 19, 2024 | UPDATED: 21:52, Fri, Jan 19, 2024
Mexican drug cartels are pouring ‘unlimited money’ into Ecuador’s chaotic drug gangs as violence rages across the country.
These Ecuadorian gangs, running wild in the unruly country, have “unlimited money” to wage a bloody battle against government forces, thanks to backing from Mexican cartels.
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Ecuadorian gangs running rampant in the out-of-control country have "unlimited money" to fight a bloody war with government forces thanks to investment from Mexican cartels.
The South American nation has been plunged into misery after a gang turf war escalated so badly that the government has designated gangs as terrorist organisations. The state has even forked out to buy 24 million gun cartridges, a figure that far exceeds the population of 17.8 million.
A state of "internal armed conflict" was declared earlier this month after a swathe of attacks in its prisons and gunning down of officials, many of them in the Guayaquil area. The outbursts came after one of the country's most notorious drug kingpins – José Adolfo Macías Villamar, or 'Fito' – escaped from jail.
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Colombian Air Force Deploy Hermes 900 Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Border with Ecuador
The Colombian Air Force has begun to deploy their Elbit Systems Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the border with Ecuador due to the Ecuadorian Cartel Crisis. Ecuador is attractive as a shipping point for drugs because the South American country is sandwiched between two top cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru. In a few short years, the experience and muscle of the Mexican cartels has turned Ecuador into the shipment point for almost one-third of the cocaine entering Europe. Gunmen from an Ecuadorian gang believed aligned with Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation cartel took over a television station during a live broadcast and brandished explosives. After the takeover of the TV station, President Daniel Noboa designated 20 drug-trafficking gangs as terrorist groups and authorized the military to “neutralize” them. Coca bush fields in Colombia have also been moving closer to the border with Ecuador due to the breakup of criminal groups after the 2016 demobilization of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
The Colombian Air Force has begun to deploy their Elbit Systems Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to the border with Ecuador due to the Ecuadorian Cartel Crisis. Ecuador is attractive as a shipping point for drugs because the South American country is sandwiched between two top cocaine producers, Colombia and Peru. In a few short years, the experience and muscle of the Mexican cartels has…
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I have said this repeatedly: the cartels in Latin America are not just criminal organizations, they are insurgencies. They are not a police but a military matter. They threaten the effective survival of the state. None will take over the government, but they seek to establish statelets of absolute rule exempt from the law of the land or any other central authority. This cannot be tolerated.
Yes, address root causes like employment, education, and poverty domestically. Address demand for drugs in the global north. But these substances will be very profitable whatever the status of the "war on drugs". Whether legal or illegal they will exert a corrupting influence in the form of bribes to public servants, high pay for foot soldiers and producers, and impunity for those at the tops of these organizations.
I believe in the decriminalization of possession of hard drugs and a move to a treatment-oriented, harm reduction approach. I also believe more pressure should be brought to bear on smugglers and dealers. There will always be illicit substances in circulation, but we should not give in when they are so destructive and addictive. The kingpins behind the cartels cannot be allowed to continue their campaigns of terror against ordinary citizens. The head must be cut off the snake, and its rattle and midsection, too. A successful anti-cartel strategy will require both brute force and savvy reform. I wish the Ecuadorian government all success in achieving these goals.
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I fear this.
You could make a funny and say “What did he have on Hillary”.
But the commies have already demonstrated they will do anything…ANYTHING…to stop Trump.
If you think the government wouldn’t assassinate someone, let’s use JFK as an example, then you haven’t been paying attention.
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Monday, September 4, 2023
Trapped in Mud, Burning Man Attendees Are Told to Conserve Food
(NYT) Tens of thousands of attendees at the Burning Man festival in a remote stretch of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada were told on Saturday to conserve food, water and fuel after heavy rainfall trapped them in thick mud. The event, which takes place in Black Rock City and began on Sunday, was interrupted by heavy rains on Friday night, and organizers directed attendees to shelter in place as rain poured over the area. Except for emergency services, vehicles have also been prohibited around Black Rock City. Festivalgoers could be trapped for several days, organizers said. Black Rock City is a temporary community that pops up each year in the middle of a vast desert known as “the playa” for Burning Man. The makeshift town hosts more than 60,000 people every year and is a three-hour drive from the nearest airport, which is more than 100 miles away in Reno.
Dinosaur-dressing Mexican senator adds bite to presidential race
(Reuters) When Xochitl Galvez lumbered onto the floor of Mexico’s Senate last December dressed in an inflatable green dinosaur suit to protest a ruling party bill, even the flustered leader of the upper house trying to rebuke her could not suppress a smile. The stunt by Galvez, who crashed the rostrum holding a card reading “Jurassic Plan” to criticize legislation from the ruling leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) as retrograde, is one of many that made her famous before she won the 2024 presidential candidacy of the main opposition alliance this week. Her snubs to convention, gift for political theater and ability to connect with voters are traits that echo President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment veteran who was finally elected in 2018.
Why Did a Drug Gang Kill 43 Students? Text Messages Hold Clues.
(NYT) It is perhaps Mexico’s most notorious cold case—43 college students shot at by the police, forced into patrol cars, handed over to a drug cartel and never seen again. How could a relatively unknown gang pull off one of the worst atrocities in Mexico’s recent history? A vast trove of about 23,000 unpublished text messages, witness testimony and investigative files obtained by The New York Times point to an answer: Just about every arm of government in that part of southern Mexico had been secretly working for the criminal group for months, putting the machinery of the state in the cartel’s hands and flattening any obstacle that got in its way. The police commanders whose officers snatched many of the students that night in 2014 had been taking direct orders from the drug traffickers, the text messages show. One of the commanders gave guns to cartel members, while another hunted down their rivals on command. The military, which closely monitored the abduction but never came to the students’ aid, had been showered with cartel bribes, too. One lieutenant even armed gunmen connected to the cartel and, a witness said, helped the police try to cover up their role in the crime after the students were kidnapped and killed. The government’s subservience is what made the mass killing of 43 college students possible, investigators say. A coroner also did the cartel’s bidding, sending photos of corpses and evidence at crime scenes, the messages show.
Ecuador says 57 guards and police officers are released after being held hostage in several prisons
(AP) Ecuadorian authorities announced Friday the release of 50 guards and seven police officers who were taken hostage for more than a day, in what the government described as a response by criminal groups to its efforts to regain control of several large correctional facilities in the South American country. The country’s corrections system, the National Service for Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty, said in a statement that the 57 law enforcement officers —who were held in six different prisons—are safe, but it didn’t offer details about how they were released. Early Friday, criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives to damage a bridge, the latest in a series of attacks this week. Nobody was injured in the explosion. Government officials have described the violent acts as the work of criminal gangs with members in prisons responding to efforts by authorities to retake control of several penitentiaries by relocating inmates, seizing weapons and other steps.
How wildfires are threatening the Mediterranean way of life
(Washington Post) As flames approached the 19th century Monastery of Panagia Ipseni, the nuns inside steeled themselves. In what seemed like minutes, superheated gyres engulfed the workshop where the sisters labored over icons of Saint Meletios and the Virgin and Child. Smoke filled the monastery’s mosaicked courtyards. The olive orchards and vineyards that provided their livelihood erupted in flames. In a summer of megafires across the northern hemisphere, the Mediterranean region is confronting what from on the ground has seemed an existential threat. A toxic mix of extreme heat and drought, together with human malice or carelessness, has set the region ablaze, costing dozens of lives and untold millions in damage. Wildfires—some record size—have been turning virgin forests into preternatural moonscapes and trigging mass evacuations of developed areas. Fires are threatening cultural heritage, too, in a part of the world known as much for the ruins of ancient civilization as the joys of the modern vacation. Even as summer comes to a close, the fires are still burning. In Sicily, a blaze destroyed the 15th century Santa Maria di Gesù church, turning an ancient wooden statue of the Virgin Mary into a singed log and consuming the 434-year-old remains of St. Benedict the Moor. In Spain’s Canary Islands last month, 26,000 people on Tenerife had to evacuate their homes as fires raged out of control.
A Brutal Path Forward, Village by Village
(NYT) The mission for the Ukrainian unit was to take a single house, in a village that is only a speck on the map but was serving as a stronghold for Russian soldiers. Andriy, a veteran marine, had waited for three days with his small assault team as other Ukrainian units crawled through minefields, stormed trenches and cleared a path to the farming village of Urozhaine. Finally, one day last month, the order came to move. They raced to a predetermined location in an armored personnel carrier, and disembarked as explosions and gunfire rattled the ground beneath their feet, Andriy and members of his unit said. Driving out or killing the remaining Russians, they secured the house as night fell. In the morning, the new order came: Take another house. The monthslong campaign to breach heavily fortified Russian lines is being conducted in many domains and in many forms of battle. But the engine driving the effort are hundreds of small-scale assault groups, often just eight to 10 soldiers, each tasked with attacking a single trench, tree line or house. Daily success is measured in yards rather than miles. But dozens of these assaults have been raging daily for weeks and, taken together, they are adding up to gains that Ukraine says will pose increasing problems for overstretched Russian forces.
Typhoon Haikui barrels into Taiwan
(Reuters) Domestic flights were cancelled and almost 4,000 people were evacuated as Typhoon Haikui barrelled into southeastern Taiwan on Sunday bringing torrential rain and strong winds. Haikui made landfall in the mountainous and sparsely populated far southeast of Taiwan mid-Sunday afternoon, the first typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in four years. Counties and cities in the region cancelled classes and declared a day off for workers.
More than 150 injured in clash at Eritrean Embassy event in Tel Aviv
(Washington Post) More than 150 Eritrean asylum seekers and dozens of police were injured Saturday in Tel Aviv after demonstrations outside an event sponsored by the Eritrean Embassy turned violent, Israeli officials said. The melee was the latest violence to break out at global festivals to celebrate 30 years of Eritrean independence but which have sparked fury among the opponents of longtime Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, one of the most repressive leaders in the world. Israeli police in riot gear and on horseback struggled to disperse crowds as rioters broke store windows, grappled with officers and smashed vehicle windshields. At least 16 of the protesters suffered serious injuries in the brawl, according to Israeli media. A hospital said it was treating 11 gunshot victims. Police used rubber bullets and stun grenades to quell the violence, and officials advised residents to avoid the area in central Tel Aviv. The Israeli emergency medical service said it was holding a special blood drive at two hospitals in the city to treat the wounded. Most of the Eritreans were refugees and asylum seekers who fled forced conscription and repression in the East African country, which Afwerki has led since its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. Some Afwerki supporters were reportedly at the scene, fighting with government opponents.
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ECUADOR: Candidate Otto Sonnenholzner casts vote in Ecuador's presidential elections
Ecuadorians head to the polls on Sunday in a presidential election tarnished by the murder of a top candidate on August 9.
Fernando Villavicencio, a vocal critic of cartels and corruption, was assassinated as he got into a car following a rally in Quito. Villavicencio’s murder cast a spotlight on drug-trafficking violence in the South American country.
Tens of thousands of security forces have…
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Killing of Fernando Villavicencio ahead of elections comes as country struggles with surge in drug-related violence Millions of Ecuadorians will have seen the phone camera footage showing the last seconds before presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed, shot...
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Ecuadorian drug lords (wearing hoods) speak to ABC News reporter. Very rare look inside a drug cartel. – CITIZEN FREE PRESS
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ecuadorian-drug-lords-wearing-hoods-speak-to-abc-news-reporter-very-rare-look-inside-a-drug-cartel/
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