The Minister of Government (Interior) of Ecuador, Patricio Pazmiño, resigned this Friday, after the simultaneous riots in fourth prisons that left 79 dead.

“It is my personal decision to present my irrevocable resignation to the post of Minister of Government”, he pointed Pazmiño in a letter addressed to President Lenín Moreno and which he posted on his Twitter account.

Pazmiño, a policeman on passive duty, added, without specifying, that “Has been questioned” his management at the head of the portfolio.

The National Assembly on Monday called for the removal of Pazmiño, the police commander, Patricio Carrillo, and the director of the body in charge of managing the prisons, Edmundo Moncayo.

The official’s resignation comes a week after the simultaneous riots in four prisons that left 79 inmates dead, and which Moreno called “barbarism.”

The authorities attribute the riots to a confrontation between criminal gangs that are vying for power and are allegedly linked to Mexican and Colombian organizations.

The former minister argued that he was also forced to resign when he was diagnosed “for the second time” with covid-19, which added to a catastrophic disease, of which he did not give details, exposes him “to an enormous risk and the impossibility of continuing “In office.

Pazmiño He came to office last November after the removal of then-Minister María Paula Romo for the use of expired tear gas canisters during the violent protests in October 2019.

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