Ecuador: arrivano alti dirigenti Usa dopo ondata violenza

Per assistere il Paese nel fronteggiare i narcotrafficanti
epa11070272 Ecuadorian soldiers talk to a man as they patrol in the People's Committee Zona Eleven neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador, 11 January 2024. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared on 09 January that government forces were engaged in an 'internal armed conflict' with armed criminal gangs, allowing him to use the army and not just the police to counter the violence, after riots began on 08 January in at least six prisons across the country. Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, was the hardest hit by the disturbances. At least 10 people were killed there on 09 January night, two of them police officers, and armed hooded men stormed a television station during a live broadcast. EPA/JOSE JACOME
epa11070272 Ecuadorian soldiers talk to a man as they patrol in the People's Committee Zona Eleven neighborhood in Quito, Ecuador, 11 January 2024. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa declared on 09 January that government forces were engaged in an 'internal armed conflict' with armed criminal gangs, allowing him to use the army and not just the police to counter the violence, after riots began on 08 January in at least six prisons across the country. Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, was the hardest hit by the disturbances. At least 10 people were killed there on 09 January night, two of them police officers, and armed hooded men stormed a television station during a live broadcast. EPA/JOSE JACOME

WASHINGTON, 12 GEN - Alti funzionari del Dipartimento di Stato e dell'esercito americano andranno in Ecuador nelle prossime settimane per esplorare modi per aiutare Quito a far fronte alla minaccia delle bande di narcotrafficanti. Lo rende noto il dipartimento di stato Usa, aggiungendo inoltre che anche dirigenti delle forze dell'ordine statunitensi si recheranno nel Paese sudamericano per assisterlo nelle indagini penali dopo l'ondata di violenza causata dai cartelli della droga. (ANSA).

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