Violence in Ecuador affects everyone – President tells

Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa told the media that the recent gang violence in his country is a problem for the entire world.

Ecuador’s newest president has only been president since November, but now he has to deal with the country’s biggest problem in recent history.

There were some bad days when two gang leaders got away from jail, prison guards were kept as hostages, and bombs were set off in many cities in the country.

The day after Mr. Noboa declared a state of emergency, some men with guns entered the TC television studios in Guayaquil and threatened the staff while the TV show was on.

In an interview with the BBC during his first visit to Guayaquil since the violence, the president admitted that it will be very difficult to restore peace to the country.

“He says he didn’t expect it to be easy when he signed up for this, and now he’s at the conflicted port city’s waterfront. ”

“We can’t keep playing this game that these terrorist groups are trying to start. ”

“Now, he says that changes are happening. ” He said that there is a serious problem with violence in the Andean nation because drug gangs are fighting each other.

He told his army to stop 22 armed groups that he called terrorist organizations.

And Washington is willing to help. A group of people from the US government, including police, soldiers, and diplomats, will be coming to Ecuador soon. His critics think the US is getting involved too much, but President Noboa supports the decision.

“He’s happy to see that other countries are starting to notice what’s happening here. ” He smiled”It has an impact all over the world: the drug terrorists here also operate in Europe and the US. ”

“We have to fix the problem from the beginning, and the beginning of the problem is here,” he says.

There are still some big problems after the chaotic and violent scenes.

First, about 180 prison officers are still being held by criminal gangs inside different prisons. Their families are feeling more and more worried and have protested in the capital, Quito.

I asked Mr. Noboa what his government was doing to get the hostages back since he has said that he won’t negotiate with the gangs because hostage-taking is the “ugly side of war. ”

“I can’t tell you exactly what we’re going to do,” he says, “but we’re always talking to the military and the police. ” We will try our best to bring those people back home.

Another question is where a well-known drug gang leader named Adolfo Macias Villamar, also known as Fito, is. The leader of the Choneros gang escaped from prison earlier this week and it seems to have caused a lot of the fighting after that.

President Noboa admitted that his forces do not know where he is yet.

At the moment, we are searching for him. We are following up on some clues with the military and getting help from other countries.

His government says they will keep searching for the leader who ran away and for Fabricio Colon Pico, the head of another gang who is also on the run, until they find them.

This week has shown that Ecuador has some serious problems. Criminal groups in Ecuador are working with powerful Mexican gangs to sneak lots of cocaine out of the country and into the US and Europe through ports like Guayaquil.

Finding drugs in the shipping containers is not enough. President Noboa wants to improve the checks in the country’s ports.

The gangs have made a lot of money and used it to influence the courts, politicians, and prisons. The president wants to make big changes in the next few years. His critics think he’s trying to do something very difficult with not much experience in politics.

“I think we can win,” he said, “and I’ll keep fighting until we do. ”

The president’s team is sharing a cool new tourism campaign for Ecuador. It’s meant to convince people from other countries to come see the beautiful mountains of the Andes.

The world has seen a bad side of the country this week as it continues to have more fighting and less stability. A country that might be becoming a “narco-state” and failing.

President Noboa disagrees with that idea, and he is determined to prevent it from happening.

“We are working hard every day to prevent this place from becoming controlled by drug criminals. ”

To do that, even his biggest fans would agree that he has a lot of work to do.