SONNA – Authorities in Ecuador have confirmed that prisoners in a correctional facility in Cuenca took 50 guards and seven police officers captive.<\/p>\n
The incident began on Wednesday afternoon following the transfer of inmates from a prison in Cotopaxi province.<\/p>\n
\u200b\u200b”The public is informed that as of 18:00 this Thursday, August 31, 7 police members and 50 servers of the Penitentiary Security and Surveillance Corps (CSVP) are being held in six detention centers,” the National Prisons Agency (SNAI) said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The SNAI stated that this event appears to be a response from criminal groups to recent security interventions within the country’s prisons. Authorities are actively taking measures to restore order within the penitentiary system.<\/p>\n
This hostage crisis follows two car bomb explosions in Quito, which were allegedly in response to ongoing efforts by authorities to reform the nation’s prison system.<\/p>\n
“There are violent actions like that of the two cars burned in Quito last night, clearly that’s a reaction to an action. The action of imposing order in the prisons, the reaction to intimidate,” President Guillermo Lasso said at an event in Los Rios province.<\/p>\n
A video that is circulating on social media shows detained police and correctional officers asking the government to secure their release.<\/p>\n
Ecuador’s prisons have been marked by power struggles among drug trafficking gangs. In response to violent clashes between criminal organizations, Lasso declared a 60-day state of emergency for the entire penitentiary system on July 24, which allows him to deploy the military inside jails.<\/p>\n
Violent disputes between organized crime gangs have killed over 430 inmates in Ecuadorian prisons since 2021.<\/p>\n
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