30JUL24 - 'Ecuadorian lawmakers call for explanations on insecurity-
"Ecuadorian lawmakers will today call on Interior Minister Monica Palencia and Defence Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo to appear in court due to persistent insecurity in the coastal province of Manabi.
A total of 11 parliamentarians representing this territory signed a document in which they announce that they will ask the plenary of the National Assembly (parliament) to approve a summons to the aforementioned officials this Tuesday.
The appearance of these authorities will allow the assembly members and the public to know the progress and challenges in terms of security, as well as to evaluate the policies implemented, the document states.
The province of Manabí is one of the six territories in Ecuador where a state of emergency is in force and where the government has moved the headquarters of the so-called Security Bloc, which brings together the Ministry of the Interior, the Defence Ministry, the Armed Forces and the National Police.
There, specifically in the city of Manta, three people were murdered in a restaurant last Saturday night, including a young couple who orphaned a four-year-old child.
However, the security problems are not limited to Manabí, as there have been 16 murders per day so far this year, according to official figures published in the local media.
This Monday, three fishermen were killed in the canton of El Guabo, in the province of El Oro, where a state of emergency is also in force.
Despite such incidents, Minister Palencia told a press conference that from 1 January to 21 July there were 774 fewer murders than in the same period last year.
According to the official, there has been a «sharp reduction» in this type of crime, with 3,369 murders reported so far in 2024.
The authorities blame drug gangs for the wave of violence that has made this South American nation one of the most insecure in the world, with 47.2 murders per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023, according to the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organised Crime.
Ecuador has declared an internal armed conflict, a provision with which President Daniel Noboa accompanied last January’s declaration of a nationwide state of emergency to curb insecurity and organised crime." -
source; https://www.radiosurco.icrt.cu/ecuadorian-lawmakers-call-for-explanations-on-insecurity/
🤠iffin you gonna move down or remain in Ecuador on into 2025, get prepared for whats a coming down the pike🥷🏼its not and has not been just a Coastal & #GYE thang, its also a Sierra & Metro #Quito Thanggy as well👮🏻♂️💰
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 ...
"It is an absurdity, it is laughable, to speak of such a
pending disaster as "The End of the World."
We are discussing the end of Humanity, or we are discussing the
end of Civilization, or we are perhaps even discussing
the end of some this or that Empire that we mistakenly
believe to identify with.
The end of the world will come when the sun
expands and engulfs it.
Now, is it truly a surprise that our discourse relates
economic tragedy with an ecological one?
That we actually behave as though a marked downturn in
the Market can somehow be compared to the death of Nature?
We are so enamored with our vastness and resource that we have forgotten the lark and the sparrow.
So I say, come armageddon. Come, you horsemen.
Let us speak these things no more."
— Takici Kaneko, 1934 - 'SteamPunk Magazine' 3-A4
https://archive.org/stream/SteamPunk_Magazine_3-A4/SteamPunk%20Magazine%203-A4_djvu.txt
07SEP26👷🏼♀️👷🏽👷🏼♂️Happy Labor Day🌭🍔🍻💪🏼🦾to US/CAN/ECU do it again⁉️
#Ecuador🪖'US MARINE AIRCRAFT ALREADY IN ECUADOR FOR OPERATIONS IN ALTO PUTUMAYO IN ORELLANA-
"The Armed Forces of Ecuador receive support from a US MV-22B Osprey aircraft for military operations in Alto Putumayo, Orellana.
🇪🇨/🇺🇸
This cooperation strengthens the mobility, transportation, and logistical support capabilities of the military units." -
https://x.com/eldatoecua/status/2097099950479806862?s=46&t=i54L5FgQ-47_fA61IWaAQg
07SEP26 🪖'Ecuador's Armed Forces dismantled three camps with capacity for 60 people in Orellana, where they apprehended nine alleged members of the Border Commandos
and seized more than 1,400 rounds of ammunition along with technological equipment." The details➡️
https://x.com/radiocentroec/status/2096946782123049056?s=46&t=i54L5FgQ-47_fA61IWaAQg
