Factions against A In Ecuadora Drug Traffic gangs fought Thursday in the Guayaquil Port Bliment city, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said.
Another three people were injured in a city quarrel, the local police said in a statement when he increased the degree before 12 dead.
A police source told AFP against the factions against a high-box against a group called Los Tigreones.
It has 20 criminal gangs involved in Ecuador Drug TrafficKidnapping and extortion, causing disaster 18 million squeeze the largest cocaine producers in the world, Peru and Colombia.
In recent years, Ecuador has dipped into violence Among the rapid expansion of transnational posters that use their ports, as a guayaquil, to send cocaine to the United States and Europe.
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Homicides, for example, rose by six people per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023 47. Record.
Experts say that the gangs are constantly mixing and growing stronger with the profits of the crime.
Guayaquil Guayas is the capital, one of the seven provinces, and has been an emergency situation in the last two months while the government was fighting gangsters. February, clashes between the opponent of Guayaquil He claimed the life of 14 people.
Daniel in the last month of Noboa said he would ask him to send special forces to send this struggle to send special forces.
Violence is not left as an Ecuadorian gear for the elections of April 13.
In January, the military said Leader of one of the Ecuador crime unionsLos Lobos was arrested in his home in the coastal city of Portoviejo. A Lot Los Lobos last year Having the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador.
In 2024, named Noba The state of “internal armed conflict” After the wild wave of violence, he turned the jailbreak of many crimes.
