Former President Correa urged strengthening the fight against organized crime in Ecuador
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Published at: 12/01/2024 11:44 PM
Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, said this Friday, the 12th, that the fight against organized crime in Ecuador must be successful for the good of this country and the territories of the region, and urged that it be waged on the basis of three pillars: technology, state intelligence and international coordination.
In an interview with Telesur, the president indicated that the South American country went from being the second safest in Latin America during his term of office, with a homicide rate of 5.78% per 100,000 inhabitants, to becoming the fifth most violent in the world. He assessed that Ecuador is about to be declared a failed State.
Referring to the factors that caused the growing insecurity, he specified that “seven years of hatred and political persecution against his party”.
He explained that subsequent governments focused on prosecuting militants of correismo and not criminals, and destroyed or weakened tools and institutions created during his administration to address security, including the Ministry of Coordination and Security, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior.
He also noted that the following governments got rid of judges and prosecutors in disagreement with prosecuting correismo, who were very prepared, and now there are judicial officials, including portfolio ministers, who are not very competent.
As another cause of the increase in violence, he identified the obsolescence of the country's security system, which formerly proved to be the most modern in Latin America, and the elimination of the school of prison guides.
He also mentioned the infiltration of organized crime and corruption in law enforcement at all levels. “The absence and weakening of the State is such that organized crime even has heavy weapons,” he emphasized.
Correa referred to the alliance of Mexican drug cartels, mainly Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation, with local terrorist groups such as Los Choneros, after the loss of the market in the United States. He considered that this strengthened local criminal groups and allowed them to recruit more young people.
He assured that his political movement does not agree with taking advantage of the situation to “pass a cat for a hare”, as Noboa intends to do when proposing to the National Assembly an increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), supposedly to finance the war against crime.
The former president stressed the need not to harm the people anymore and to seek funds to confront transnational crime in other ways, such as not carrying out the citizen consultation proposed by Noboa. He described it as unnecessary and recalled that not doing it will save 60 million dollars.
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