07 APR 2022 'Ecuador's deadly prison riots show no signs of slowing-
Quito (AFP) – "After another bloody year in Ecuador's interminable cycle of prison violence, authorities appear no closer to taking control.
The latest sordid massacre saw 20 inmates killed -- some mutilated -- last Sunday in the El Turi penitentiary in the southern city of Cuenca.
It was the fifth such mass murder in a prison riot since February 2021.
The government blames these horrors on drug gangs taking over prisons, but some experts claim authorities simply do not care about those caught up in the violence.
Vianca Gavilanes, a lawyer for the inmates' rights NGO Dignity Foundation, blames "generalized apathy" towards the lives of prisoners and a government that has forgotten "its duties as guarantor".
She noted that even in instances when intelligence networks or family members have warned of imminent bloodshed, authorities have been slow to take action.
"It seems as if the police are hoping they will die inside, that they will kill each other, and they only pick up the bodies," Gavilanes told AFP.
Lack of control
The modus operandi is always the same in these riots: a night-time brawl involving guns and machetes leaves a trail of dismembered bodies.
Criticized for not sufficiently addressing the issue, right-wing President Guillermo Lasso -- in power for less than a year -- has released additional funding for prisons and said extra guards would be hired....." -
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220407-ecuador-s-deadly-prison-riots-show-no-signs-of-slowing
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My 2025 NewYears Resolution is more time out on the La G range, zz style, 🎸🥁🎸 cuzz (imho) we gonna dang sure be a needin it🥷🏼if anybody wants to no longer be an outlaw? Call me to join our Qtowne Quito gun club and get legal to tote with a 55hr CCW Course,
now a days The CCW is pretty much streamlined down to this:
plan on about $300 for to join the gun club,about $200 or up to $300 for the CCW course,about $300 for psyche, psycho and toxico exams,
a 9mm Taurus for say $1200.
a 9mm CZ for say $1500.
aprox $80 to $100 for a box of 50rds 9mm FMJ
i see peeps now a days getting legally armed in about a 3-4 months time frame, kinda like a tuff assed visa process!
'Always be prepared' - BSA & SA,
"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) Western novelist of ...
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Premeirs🎥SUN 10AUG25 (9pmET) #CNN "Senior National Correspondent David Culver and team report on the exploding violence in Ecuador, 🇪🇨
Where citizens are regularly pressured to hand over money to gangs involved in the country’s drug trade.
Watch ‘Ecuador: The Narco Superhighway’ on ‘The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper’ Sunday August 10 at 9pm ET on CNN." #CNN #News -
