Two unknown people on a motorcycle opened fire on a television station on Friday Ecuadorwhile they left threatening messages against a newspaper, according to the announcement of the prosecution.
The “attack” was aimed at the RTS television network, he clarified via Twitter. “Unidentified people shot the doors of the media outlet and left leaflets with threatening content against the newspaper Extra”the prosecution added.
The leaflets are aimed at newsagents, order that the sale of Extra be “banned”.. The perpetrators they threaten to execute anyone who does not comply with this threatas well as the director of the newspaper.
With his announcement, the media assured that it will “continue to inform about the events related to the crisis in the prison system and the insecurity affecting the country”.
In a news broadcast yesterday, RTS confirmed the attack on its premises on the night of Thursday to Friday. “They will not be able to silence us, we are a network of serious journalists”assured host Luisa Delgadillo.
The government of conservative President Guillermo Lasso hit back condemning “acts of violence and intimidation” against journalists and media and expressing her “solidarity” to RTS and Extra.
Ecuador is facing an unprecedented wave of drug-trafficking violence as gangs clash mercilessly for control of the gold-rich contraband. Clashes often take place inside the country’s prisons, where some 400 inmates have been killed in nine massacres since 2021.
This week alone, 29 inmates were killed in two massacres on Monday and Wednesday at penitentiaries in Latacunga and Guayaquil. The large Guayas 1 prison in the latter is hit hardest by violence between rival gangs, with 214 inmates murdered, according to reports in the Ecuadorian press.
Source: News Beast
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