Three women were arrested and face charges for their alleged participation in the murder of an Ecuadorian prosecutor in the coastal province of Manabí, the State Attorney General’s Office reported Friday.
Source: EFE
In a brief statement issued on networks, the prosecutorial body detailed that charges were filed against Genesis C., Ginger S. and María C. “for their alleged participation in the crime of murder, committed against the prosecutor Luz Marina Delgado and Jefferson Mendoza, in Manta. Pre-trial detention was ordered against him.”
After reporting the murder on Wednesday, the Prosecutor’s Office rejected “any attempt to intimidate” and ratified its support for the investigative work carried out by the different prosecutorial teams in the country to guarantee “dignified, transparent and effective access to criminal justice.”
He also made an appeal to the National Police and other entities in charge of ensuring citizen security and preventing the commission of crimes, to “act more efficiently so that these types of events do not repeat themselves.”
On April 29, the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, decreed a state of emergency in Manabí, Esmeraldas and Guayas, provinces on the country’s coast, to combat organized crime, which includes a nightly curfew in three towns.
The Government of Ecuador also reported that it allocated an item of 11.5 million dollars to reinforce security in the coastal city of Guayaquil (southwest).
These decisions were framed in the growing violence that exists on the Ecuadorian coast led by organized criminal gangs focused mainly on drug trafficking and some with links to drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia, according to the Ecuadorian authorities.
Scenes such as the appearance of decapitated people or the assassinations of hired assassins have become increasingly frequent in the coastal provinces, mainly around Guayaquil, the capital of Guayas, whose port is used as a springboard for cocaine produced in Colombia, Peru and, to a lesser extent, also in Ecuador.
This phenomenon also has a bloody chapter in the prison crisis in Ecuador, where more than 400 prisoners have died since 2020 in different clashes between this type of gang that is vying for control of the prisons.
