Another altercation among inmates in Ecuador left at least one dead and two injured

Although the reasons for the incident are unknown, information circulating on social networks warns. possible confrontation hitting and detonating at least one explosive device At the Guayas No. 1 Center for Deprivation of Freedom (CPL), also known as the Guayaquil Prison.

“Faced with the incident alert issued on CPL Guayas No. 1, we have activated the relevant security protocols,” SNAI said in a Twitter message. “Frontly, clashes have been reported between prisoners at CPL No. 1 in Guayas. The National Police continues to activate relevant actions through special groups,” the source said in another message. In addition, “In the face of clashes between prisoners at CPL Guayas No. 1, the National Police carried out deterrent and control measures inside and outside the Headquarters, while administrative personnel were evacuated, among other actions.”

Confronting “organized crime”

Guillermo Rodriguez, director of SNAI, wrote on this social network: “Unfortunately, there has been a new conflict at CPLGuayas Nº 1. members of organized crime syndicatesIn addition, Rodriguez reiterated that the Police, Armed Forces, the Government Human Rights Secretariat and the Ministry of Health are “carrying out relevant actions in their respective fields of activity”.

On October 3, 16 dead and 43 injured, including Leandro Norero, accused of leading the country’s drug gang, in another brawl between inmates at Cotopaxi No. 1 prison, which continued until the next day. Another massacre took place at the same Guayaquil Prison on October 5, in which 13 inmates were killed and 18 injured, the ninth prison massacre since 2020. On the 8th, two inmates were found dead in a prison in the coastal province of Esmeraldas, in the northwest of the country and on the border with Colombia. The next day, SNAI reported that it had found more than 700 rifle bullets in the Guayaquil prison, and that an unknown police officer was being investigated in this case.

More than 100 deaths in 2022

So far this year, more than 100 inmates have died violently in Ecuadorian prisons, and more than 450 have been killed since 2020. human rights groups they even described this situation as “prison genocide”. Against the allegation that the state did not take action to stop the repeated massacres in prisons.

The Ecuadorian Government, for its part, has endorsed a commitment to comply with recommendations issued by the Human Rights Commission of the Americas (IACHR) regarding the alarming prison situation in Ecuador, blaming criminal gangs with alleged ties to the cartels. Drug dealers objecting to control of prisons.