Ecuador is in “maximum alert,” said the government on April 19, after an intelligence report was disclosed that alerts on an alleged murder attempt against the reelected president Daniel Noboa
A report of the Joint Command of the Armed Forces of Ecuador, dated Thursday and signed by the Army Colonel Rolando Proaño, ensures that after the re -election of Daniel Noboa last weekend, “transfer has begun of hitmen from Mexico and other countries to Ecuador, in order to carry out terrorist attacks against the President of the Republic” and its closest officials.
“We condemn and strongly repudiate any attempt to attack the life of the President of the Republic, State authorities and public officials,” said the Ministry of Government in a statement released early Saturday, hours after the social networks filtration of the military document.
The report warns of “the planning of possible terrorist attacks” in road infrastructure, banks and state institutions. He also mentions the realization of “violent” protests in the country and recommends strengthening the security scheme of the president.
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“In complicity with defeated political sectors”
“The State is on a maximum alert,” said the Ministry of Government in its statement. “The Armed Forces, the National Police and the intelligence agencies are working articulated to neutralize any threat.”
The Noboa government responsible for the alleged assassination plan for “criminal structures, in complicity with political sectors defeated at the polls”, without giving details or names.
Gustavo Petro’s leftist governments in Colombia and Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico refrain from recognizing Noboa’s triumph after the accusations of fraud of Luisa González, ruled out by observers of the European Union and the Organization of American States.
Outhroes considered a lighthouse of peace in a conflicting region, Ecuador is now wrapped in a bloody territorial war between narcos and rival international mafias. Noboa, who in 2024 declared the country in internal armed conflict, seeks to face criminal violence with a hard hand policy for which he seeks the support of allied countries.
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