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-We are right at 9 days into The New Admin, so maybe next month or years🥷21APR25🚨 #Quito (HCAM)👨🏻‍⚕️"We have had reports about a number of deadly threats to the main Quito iess Hospital Staff and Admin! "There are mafias inside and outside the hospital," patients cry out after surgery at the Carlos Andrade Marín iess hosp , in Quito- "As the same thing happened in the IESS hospital in Guayaquil, dozens of police and military intervened at the Carlos Andrade Marín hospital in Quito, due to alleged threats to its staff.⛑

The operation was led by the ministers of Defence, Gian Carlo Loffredo, and of the Interior, John Reimberg, who entered together with a strong contingent of the two state security forces.🪖National Police and Ecu Military provide Security a Block intervention at 'Carlos Andrade Marín Hospital' (HCAM) of IESS in Quito."🏢🏬🏩🏣(jjinecu: It is an enormous Facility, takes up an entire city block)

Interior Minister Reimberg said that an elite team will remain at the hospital collecting information that will lead to determining the origin and objective of the threats. "We are doing our second intervention in a hospital. We have come because we have heard of certain threats to the staff and managers who work in the hospital," Reimberg told the media in Quito.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo, added that there have been threats against the lives, follow-ups and even damage to property of hospital officials. Loffredo even mentioned that organized crime groups would allegedly be operating inside of the public health system." - This is the info: https://ow.ly/t99a50VF16J

(My JJinEcu comments: this is the largest Hospital Facility in all of Ecuador, and is my primary go to iess Hospital, i have a follow up appt there next month, great folks great service when all is going well, it does have its lil ups and downs -

intermittent down times like covids19 pandemic from 15MAR2020 to NOV / DEC 2023, note the 🌈rainbow stripes on the floor to navigate around, as i previously stated for past 4-5 years JiMHO: "That the cancerous narco gangland wars if left unabated will not stay contained to just the coast, it will and is also spreading to the Sierras) 🏞:(🦼🦯🦽🩼

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My 2025 NewYears Resolution

🤠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 ...

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🏈NA footbal and 🏟️ ⚽️SA futbol soccer are both 'Pan and Circus' 🎪acts to distract us from the really important issuesof our times🎭🤹🏼‍♀️🎟️RIP Cool Bill Cooper🎚️
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20AUG25 'The 10 most affordable states for retirees in 2025- "Here are the most affordable states, according to Bankrate’s analysis:

West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Wyoming
Ohio
Wisconsin
Nevada
Indiana
Idaho
Georgia,

West Virginia
powered to the top with strong performances in both key sub-categories. The state had the lowest cost of living, as well as the fourth-lowest cost of homeowner’s insurance, at $1,009 annually. 

“West Virginia has been an attractive location for retirees for the last few years and has seen multiple years of positive net migration — people moving in — despite the fact that the overall state population is shrinking,” says Kates...." -

https://www.investigatetv.com/bankrate-article/2025/08/19/10-most-affordable-states-retirees-2025/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAMaIxhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqnIAV4M18O-LfZH0fJ90KvOU_OVRL_qO0k_bKfb4y85lRLqeP7ZjW0NadL0_aem_-vL6dmROSGEuMKp2KF6i_A#zavx8hodtavemuzbn6cnsjpva2p3kj8

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 -

07AUG25 (19:00) #Ecuador EV Tv News 📺 "Jose Serrano ex-Minister of the Interior and ex-President of the National Assembly. He's an insider's insider in Ecuadorean politics. Now he's in ICE custody in Florida USA."

https://www.primicias.ec/politica/jose-serrano-custodia-estados-unidos-exministro-correismo-ecuador-102509/

(maybe the domino chips will begin to fall across the pond to Belgium?:)🎟️🎟️2🎲🎲

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