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 context of the prison crisis and the confrontations at the Litoral Penitentiary, which left 61 dead, the president, Guillermo Lasso, sent a message to the nation.
In this communiqué, the President detailed these measures, emphasizing that the «citizen security it will become the number one priority of the presidential office.
Citizen security becomes the number one priority of the presidential office.
All united we must put aside our differences and seek a greater good than ourselves: peace and order. We are determined to end the days of impunity.
– Guillermo Lasso (@LassoGuillermo) November 16, 2021
In addition, he explained that one of the actions will be the classification of a new crime of “Authorship by domain of organization”, in order to punish the ‘bosses of the mafias’ more severely.
In the statement, the President commented that what the country is currently experiencing are consequences of the politicization and the corruption of citizen security. “They deliberately handed over territories to criminal gangs so that they could operate with impunity,” he said and stressed that regulations will be approved for the progressive use of force.
The International cooperation it was also a key point of his speech. The Executive expressed its gratitude to the United States, Israel, Colombia, the United Kingdom and Spain for being allied governments in the “fight against this massacre.”
In relation to the process of mediation, stressed that this will be carried out through “prominent and respectable Ecuadorians”, who will mediate between gangs “without negotiating nor give in nothing on the part of the State.
Finally, he called on the political forces, state powers and citizens, to join his efforts to fight insecurity and violence in the country. (MFU)
