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The corruption of government authorities and the lack of attention to the basic needs of inmates are the main factors that generate violence inside prisons and that allow gangs to seize control

Throughout history, the ‘peace treaties’, between governments and criminal groups, have been a strategy to stop violence, but Ecuador is not in the capacity to do so. Should he Ecuadorian state negotiating

The President announced the progressive use of force and the definition of a new crime to face the prison crisis. After announcement of the seven measures that the Executive will take In

The aim of the campaign is to socialize and cultivate the correct habits of consumption and responsible food donation in the capital. In Ecuador, every citizen wastes on average 72 kilos of

Days before 61 prisoners died, there was already talk of a new massacre, but there was also an alert signal that the authorities did not see. Between Friday 12 and Saturday 13

In Ecuador there are 34 electric stations, but other countries in the region, with even smaller populations, reach more than three times that capacity. Out of every hundred vehicles that are sold

The lack of judges of Constitutional Guarantees forced the judiciary to improvise replacement judges. On November 8, 2021, the The Assembly’s Comprehensive Security Commission established, in its Investigation Report on the Prison

The prison crisis represents an issue that the authorities have avoided since 2019, when the Constitutional Court issued rulings that empower the State to act on the issue. “Let this video record

According to the Government, calm has returned to the ‘Litoral Penitentiary’ after the massacre of November 12 and 13, which left 68 dead and 25 wounded. The situation ‘is under control’ in

WITH UPDATED INFORMATION UNTIL 1:20 PM The delivery process consists of the autopsy, identity verification by the Civil Registry and delivery of the death certificate along with the body. A total of