They shot the director of the Guayaquil women’s prison: her two guards were injured

There director Since prison of women from Guayaquil she was attacked by armed men who shot at the vehicle she was traveling in. The official, who took office in February this year, was accompanied by two police officers who were in her custody and her sister. The officers were injuredone in the forearm and the other in the head, and they are treated in a nursing home although their prognosis is guarded.

The official, whose identity has not been revealed for security reasons, according to the Full care service (SNAI), responsible for prisons, was intercepted by another car on the road to Daule. The director was getting out of prison and heading for Guayaquil. A Jeep type vehicle blocked their way and men got out and shot them. This is not the first time such an attack has occurred, according to Karol Noronjournalist specializing in security, in January 2022, the director of the same prison also survived an attack.

During this attack, the men used 2.23 caliber rifles and hit the area of ​​the right passenger door and the front of the manager’s vehicle.

In a statement, SNAI describes as “objectionable” e “lamentableto the attack on the director. The entity assured that the National Police is carrying out the necessary investigations to determine those responsible for this fact.

For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, wished the “speedy recovery” of the injured police officers and also dismissed what happened. As disclosed the universeGen. Edwin Noguera, police chief for Zone 8, which includes Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón, visited the injured officers.

Threats and intimidation against judicial and government authorities related to prisons are not new in Ecuador. In December 2022, the director of the Quito prison was shot dead.

Colonel of the National Police of Ecuador in passive service, Santiago Loza She had been on the job for less than a month – like the Guayaquil manager – when two subjects shot her as she was driving to work.

Loza served in a prison under the control of the criminal gang Wolveswho had come out, along with five other criminal groups, in favor of a peace agreement in November 2022.

At that time, six gangs assured that they would accept a peace agreement to stop the massacres in the prisons: “We are united to neutralize these acts of violence against the population and the State. Mister President, we are not at war with the state nor are we a beneficiary of extortion or kidnappings or attacks that have happened in recent days perpetrated by opposition organizations,” one of the spokespersons said.

During Loza’s short administration, several members of Los Lobos were transferred to other prisons, resulting in the eleventh prison massacre in the prison that Loza was responsible for.

In February 2023, the two years after the start of the prison massacres in Ecuador. The violence in prisons, which has spilled onto the streets of the country, has exposed the government’s lack of leadership in prisons. The national government assured that the wave of violence is the response to actions against organized crime, drug trafficking and the mafias that operate in the country.

Guayaquil, the commercial capital of Ecuador, is one of the hardest hit cities. The city’s ports have become logistical hubs for smuggling drugs to the world, according to the US Department of Security. In addition, in Guayaquil is the most violent prison in the country. This added to the violence in the streets has made it one of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world.

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