(10 Dec 2024)
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Quito, Ecuador – 10 December 2024
1. Various of relatives of disappeared people walking in Quito on International Human Rights Day
2. Lidia Rueda reading a manifesto for the disappeared persons
3. Various relatives of disappeared people sitting with photographs of their loved ones listening
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Lidia Rueda, President of the Association of Relatives and Friends of Disappeared People in Ecuador:
"Today as part of International Human Rights Day, we have thought it necessary to make our cases visible and raise our voices so that the Ecuadorian State responds. Our loved ones are not with us and they are not with us because they do not belong to any of the elites, nor to corrupt groups. So we have to keep raising our voices and let the whole world know that the Ecuadorian State has done nothing to find them."
5. Various photographs of missing people
6. Various of display of clothes of missing people
STORYLINE:
On International Human Rights Day, relatives of missing persons mobilized through some streets of Quito to then read a manifesto to loved ones whose whereabouts are still unknown.
Speaking at an event where relatives held photos of their loved ones Lidia Rueda, President of the Association of Relatives and Friends of Disappeared people in Ecuador said that the state had not done enough to find those who are missing.
"We have to keep raising our voices and let the whole world know that the Ecuadorian State has done nothing to find them." said Lidia, speaking to the Associated Press.
Ecuador’s gangs have unleashed a wave of violence in recent years, which began around 2018. And ordinary families have been caught in the crosshairs.
Ecuador in general was long a peaceful place for the region, a world away from the warfare of some other nations. But drug trafficking, gang fights for control and waves of violence rocked the country beginning in 2018.
President Daniel Noboa, a 36-year-old heir to a banana fortune who is running for re-election next year, deployed the army to fight the gangs, but faces a huge adversary in Ecuadorian gangs backed by powerful Mexican and Albanian cartels.
The number of disappeared varies, estimated at hundreds to thousands each year since violence in Ecuador increased.
AP Video shot by Cesar Olmos
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