The Argentine government, through the Foreign Ministry, repudiated on Tuesday the attacks committed in Ecuador by drug gangs that are vying for power and that caused the death of several police officers.
“We accompany the families of the victims in their pain,” he added.
The Argentine Republic strongly condemns the attacks that occurred in Guayaquil and Esmeraldas, and expresses its solidarity with the people of Ecuador.
We accompany the families of the victims in pain.
– Argentine Foreign Ministry ?? (@CancilleriaARG) November 1, 2022
Four policemen were killed, several were injured and eight prison guards were taken hostage and later released in escalating prison violence and streets of Ecuador linked to the power dispute of drug gangs.
As a result, President Guillermo Lasso suspended his visit to the United States and ordered a state of emergency in Guayaquil and Esmeraldas.
Drug trafficking organizations committed 12 attacks with explosives and bullets as an alleged response to the transfer of prisoners from the Guayas 1 prison in the port of Guayaquil, one of the main scenes of bloody massacres among inmates, which left some 400 dead since February last year. .
