Daniel Noboa’s government condemned the murder of the prosecutor who was investigating the takeover of the television channel: “We Ecuadorians are together and united”

The news of the murder of prosecutor César Suárez, responsible for the case of the takeover of TC Televisión which occurred eight days ago and which followed other critical cases related to drug trafficking, shocked Ecuador this Wednesday. The national authorities they expressed their condolencesthey condemned “all forms of violence” and argued: “We Ecuadorians are together and united.”

The conflict that governments and security forces are experiencing with gangs linked to drug trafficking and corruption has intensified.

The government led by the president Daniele Noboa It was issued for Suárez’s crime, which intensified the conflict that the authorities and security forces are experiencing with gangs linked to drug trafficking and corruption.

“We reject any form of violence as a response to the conflict we are experiencing and we ratify the national government’s strong commitment to support the administration of justice,” said the Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredoin a video broadcast on official social media.

Loffredo linked the crime to the actions carried out by the Armed Forces and the Police against organized crime groups which last week unleashed a spiral of violence in several prisons across the country and on the streets of cities nationwide.

The official underlined in his speech “the strong commitment of the national government to support the bodies that administer justice” in their actions against crime and violence.

“We Ecuadorians are together and united in one force”assured the head of national defense.

Prosecutor Suárez was dealing with numerous drug trafficking cases and had just managed to arrest a fugitive for corruption, in the case known as Metastasis.

Although after the commando coup he appeared on TV without custody, a day before his murder – after the arrest of Daniel Salcedo in Panama – he had asked the authorities for protection and refuge, as he believed that his life was in danger .

Prosecutors, prison directors and a presidential candidate: the trail of blood in Ecuador

Suárez was not the first victim in the country where authorities are fighting organized crime gangs.

At least two other prosecutors were murdered last year in Guayaquil and its metropolitan area, as happened in the case of magistrates Édgar Escobar and Leonardo PalaciosIn the meantime he judge Nelson Yánezin the Amazonian Lagro Agrio, they suffered the same fate.

THE threats The officials of the Ecuadorian justice apparatus have arrived Attorney General, Diana Salazarwho in June 2023 reported having received intimidating messages from unknown telephone numbers and apparently coming from abroad.

Furthermore, Santiago Loza, director of the El Inca prison, in Quito, was shot dead in December 2022 in the Ecuadorian capital and the directors of the women’s prisons of Esmeraldas and Guayaquil also suffered similar attacks in March 2023 where they managed to save their lives.lives.

Over the past year, attacks against Ecuadorian authorities, including politicians, have increased in the electoral context of local elections and then general elections, where the most violent campaign in Ecuador’s history took place.

On August 9, the country experienced one of its most violent moments, with the murder of Fernando Villavicencio, the presidential candidate shot down while finishing a party event in Quito. Six people were arrested in this case.

Councilors, municipal officials and neighborhood leaders have also been murdered in recent months, in a series of crimes that have stained the whole of Ecuador with blood. with approximately 45 malicious homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.