Journalist who had reported in a report of a series of murders in his city Equatorial Drinking gangs was ambushed by violence of violence in ambush, announcements Wednesday announced Freedom of Freedom.

Patricio Anglar, 54, was assassinated yesterday at a home in Foudo Limon, a district swept by violence in the city of Kinide, reported by NGO reporters without borders (Reporters Sans Frontières, RSF). The perpetrators “They have repeatedly shot against the journalist, leaving at least 27 Calls at the scene of the crime.”she said in a statement.

Patricio Anglar was the director of the local newspaper El Libertador de Quinindé, in the province of Esmeralda, which is adjacent to Colombia, the country where the largest amount of cocaine in the world is produced.

Country with dollar economy and ports of strategic importance in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuador has been turned into recent years into node of substance trafficking To the US markets, the country with the highest consumption of cocaine in the world, and those of Europe.

RSF notes that Patricio Anglar, a three -year experienced journalist, had repeatedly received threats due to his articles on the phenomenon of violence in the province of Esmeralda, where they were committed. At least five murders yesterday.

Prior to his own murder, he had covered a rifle in Foudo Limon and had been shared on social networking sites Pictures of allegedly robbery perpetrators Shopping.

Like RSF, the regional defense of freedom of the Fundamedios has called on a thorough and complete investigation into the case.

“The assassination of Patricio Anglar is a serious attack on the freedom of the press on Ecuador. His work, exposing organized crime and political corruption, put him in danger, but authorities were unable to protect him. “commented by Artur Hion, director of the RSF department responsible for Latin America.

The NGO Periodistas Sin Cadenas (journalists without chains) pointed out that this was the first murder of a journalist in Ecuador in 2022, when three media professionals had fallen dead.

According to the authorities, twenty gangs act in the equator, mainly in drug trafficking, kidnappings and blackmail. The homicide index exploded in recent years in the state of Latin America, sometimes an oasis of peace and tranquility, passing through the 6 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2018 at 47 in 2023tragic record.

The president Daniel Nomaaa, A candidate for his re -election in the second round of the presidential election on April 13, in which he will face the Evangelical Lawyer and the Left Candidate, Louisa Gonzalezhas declared a state of emergency in areas of the country, developed the army on the streets and characterized gangs “Terrorist” organizations.