The country’s National Police tallied 3,568 violent deaths in the first six months of this year.
Police inspect a truck that exploded outside an office used by the government's National Service for Attention for People Deprived of Liberty , which runs the jail system, in Quito, Ecuador, early Thursday Aug. 31, 2023.
In Quito, the first bomb went off Wednesday night in an area where an office of the country’s corrections system was previously located. The second explosion in the capital happened early Thursday outside the agency’s current location. The fire department in the city of Cuenca, where one of the prisons in which law enforcement officers are being held hostage is located, reported that an explosive device went off Thursday night. The department did not provide additional details beyond saying the explosion damaged a car.
He had accused Los Choneros and its imprisoned current leader Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito,” whom he linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, of threatening him and his campaign team days before the assassination.
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