Ecuador’s Air Force Lieutenant Commander was assassinated yesterday by armed men who had ambushed him near the city gang of drug trafficking.
The perpetrators approached the high -ranking officer’s car and shot ‘At least 20 times’said the chief of police chief Santiago Tuston. They have managed to escape and the authorities have launched a manhunt to identify and arrest them.
The Lieutenant General Purple He was commander of the Ecuadorian Air Force Special Forces. He had departed from Guagili to Manda, which is about 200 kilometers away, to attend a military ceremony. The two Pacific coast cities are among those that have been most affected by drug-moving gangs.
Sometimes an oasis of peace in Latin America, the equator – which borders with the Colombia and Peru, the two countries with the largest production of cocaine worldwide – has been turned in recent years into drug trafficking node to the American and European markets.
In spite of the “war” declared by the President Daniel Nomboa In the drug cartels, gang action has launched violence at unprecedented levels. In 2023 the indicator of homicide reached to 47 per 100,000 inhabitantssurpassing any previous record.
Source :Skai
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