The Argentine ambassador to Ecuador, Gabriel Fuks, stated that the level of violence in that country “is growing, visible and complex” in relation to the events carried out by “different gangs, maras, also linked to prison violence, groups of gangs that They are consolidating inside the jail.”
“In a single day several car bombs were planted, several policemen died, as if it had been a clearly planned event,” the ambassador warned this morning in statements to Télam Radio.
Fuks clarified that “there is no type of affectation to Argentine citizens” and that the wave of violence “that has taken a turn these days” is effectively “localized in some way, and focused”.
In this context, he reported that the events are taking place especially in the Guayas area, whose capital is Guayaquil, and in Esmeraldas, on the north Pacific coast, and that the Argentina “has shown solidarity with the Ecuadorian people and government” due to the high level of violence.
“The idea of the Government also appears as an important factor, which has been proposing for some time that the Armed Forces participate in internal security,” said Fuks.
And he completed on this subject that “There are several potential questions for a constitutional reform that the Government intends to answer in February” in a popular consultation while new authorities are voted for governors and mayors.
The diplomat pointed out that, even though the Constitutional Court has rejected some forms of the questions formulated by the authorities in the consultation, the Ecuadorian government “insists on putting the Armed Forces in the logic of confronting what they call transnational crime linked to drug trafficking.”
He also considered that When talking about transnational crime, “it is not clear what is behind all these movements of violence, of this insecurity.”
At the same time, he expressed that “it is important to understand the regional context” when talking about current events in Ecuador.
