(13 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guayaquil, Ecuador – 13 March 2025
1. Various of vehicles burnt and damaged after explosion
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quito, Ecuador – 13 March 2025
2. Officials at news briefing
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Holger Cortéz Carrión, Ecuador National Police national director of anti-drug investigations:
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"We think we have a premise this could be a reaction from criminal groups regarding the announcement made by our president regarding the deployment of Blackwater. We are investigating, we are verifying to be able to establish exactly what could be the motivation of what happened yesterday at dawn."
4. News briefing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Guayaquil, Ecuador – 13 March 2025
5. Various of vehicles burnt and damaged, exterior of Litoral Penitentiary
STORYLINE:
An explosion outside the Litoral Penitentiary, Ecuador’s most dangerous prison, left one guard dead and two injured on Thursday.
The blast also destroyed several cars and damaged part of the prison entrance.
The attack marks a new chapter in the escalating violence facing Ecuador, especially in the city of Guayaquil.
Two weeks earlier, a massacre in a popular neighborhood in the northwest had left 22 people dead.
The police chief of the Pascuales district in Guayaquil told the press that the officer approached the vehicle when he noticed the fire.
At that moment, the explosives, presumably placed inside, went off.
He was thrown with force by the shock wave and died, said the police commander.
Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa had announced on Tuesday a “strategic alliance” with the founder of the controversial U.S. security firm Blackwater that he said seeks to improve capabilities to confront organized crime.
Holger Cortéz Carrión, the National Police’s director of anti-drug investigations, said at a media briefing the attack could have been a "reaction" to Noboa’s announcement.
Since the beginning of 2021, Ecuador has been experiencing a growing wave of violence, which, according to the government, has been triggered by criminal groups linked to drug trafficking and other illegal activities with links to cartels in Mexico and Colombia.
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