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Hmm, any good news coverage of that?
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Blood Bath at Ecuador Prisons as Drug Gangs Battle for Control.
The violence broke out in a series of coordinated mutinies on Tuesday morning in three large prisons across the country, according to the police. It was not until the afternoon that the authorities regained control.
Videos recorded by inmates and shared on social media showed beheaded corpses and mutilated arms and legs, shocking a nation unused to massacre. The ghastly imagery made clear just how far Ecuador has fallen into the violent spiral of organized drug crime.
“This sort of thing was unthinkable in our country,” Ricardo Camacho, who once headed Ecuador’s prison system, said in an interview. “This is a tragedy, a true shock.”
The government said Tuesday’s attacks were part of a feud between rival drug gangs.
In December, the leader of a prominent local gang called Los Choneros was assassinated in a shopping mall in the port city of Manta, which has become an important hub for cocaine trafficking to Central America.
On Tuesday, the battle moved to the prisons as Los Choneros members retaliated for their leader’s death, said Gen. Edmundo Moncayo, the head of Ecuador’s prison system. Many of the victims, he said, were not tied to organized crime but simply caught up in the battle.
“Two armed groups tried to seize the criminal leadership of the detention centers,” General Moncayo said.
Although Ecuador does not itself grow large quantities of coca leaf, it is flanked by the world’s two largest producers, Colombia and Peru.
Colombian cocaine traffickers and guerrillas have long used Ecuador’s territory for operations, and in recent years began diverting a growing share of exports to neighboring countries, as the Colombian authorities stepped up controls at ports and airports.
Ecuador’s overcrowded prisons have become increasingly violent over the past three years, as drug gangs gained effective control.
The violence worsened after prisons were forced to cut their budgets under an austerity program adopted by Ecuador’s financially struggling government, said Daniela Oña, who studies human rights abuses in Ecuadorean jails.
“It is a multidimensional problem,” Ms. Oña said, noting that there is now “less money for psychology, sports, culture, social work — all these factors that prevent a proper social rehabilitation.”
In December, five inmates died in a prison brawl among members of a local drug gang, according to the police. In 2019, two dozen Ecuadorean inmates died in a series of mutinies, with two victims burned alive.
i'm surprised no one is talking about Haiti, the ex-president is refusing to step down and people are out in the streets protesting against him
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I really can't get much information about that, I would like to opinate but I can't find a good summary.
In Peruvian news, Rafael Lopez Aliaga was forbidden from participating elections because his promises to break rules of wasting public money into campaign (Rafael promised he would give all his saluary to charity, that's pretty BS but it fills the condition).
This pretty much mixed with the fact that he earned like, the despise of every Peruvian with basic empathy after he mocked a woman begging to be euthanized.
Euthanasia debate aside, what makes Lopez stands as uniquely bad is because he pretty much mocked her in front of cameras.
And nothing of value was lost, because Lopez Aliaga is...scum. Dude is a far-right politician that literally works with pedophile priests and constantly insults the other candidates.
Forsyth also got excluded, which is...I am personally neutral over this, but I at least recognize he is a far better person that Lopez, is not hard but still.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Feb 25th 2021 at 10:08:13 AM
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Anka Aquila
I will cross-post these news in the Chinese thread.
In an unexpected turn of events, it has been revealed that the current scandal of vaccines being used first by politicians here in Peru rather than the population that should be getting them first was caused by the insistance of Chinese company Sinopharm to sell their vaccine here.
Sinopharm urged politicians, incluiding ex-president Martin Vizcarra to use a cargo of 2000 vaccines first as a way to "inspire confidence in the population" for their vaccine if they wanted to sell the rest to us.
I honestly have no words left, this is the sort of strong-arming that calls into question how sovereign is a nation truly in the world of today.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
Yeah, it really show exactly how far and deep chinia is trying to influence latin america, I dont doubt the same kinda happen in venezuela.
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The supporters of the banner far right candidate now reunited to do a march while calling President Sagasti to be "genocidal" because he both didn't single handely stop Covid and because LOCKDOWN IS EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL
Also, they trying their best to act like if a generic Center right liberal is actually a communist is beyond epic.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 1st 2021 at 4:58:43 AM
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Meanwhile venezuela is becoming more and more the biggest center of feminice in latin america a this rate, is kinda heartbreaking really.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
......This remenber me what my lawer said that with chavez and maduro we are as far away to reclain esquibo as posible and a this point, I feel it have become esencially imposible.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
Lopez Aliaga's Vice president candidate said that every older woman that worked or studied (or taught her daughters to be anything but a housewive) is a terrorist
Needlessly to say, that seem to have earned him the hatred of...pretty much everyone with a education and some sense of basic decency.
Like, that's honestly even more outrageous when you realize that the reason why the female workforce expanded in the 90s is because they were refugees of terrorist actions. A lot of them were widowed housewives.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 5th 2021 at 11:34:17 AM
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
Lopez Aliaga was allowed to run (and George Forsyth)
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 5th 2021 at 2:33:21 PM
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
Now, Beto Ortiz and Willax said that the Vaccines didn't work on TV, which caused a mass outrage because, well, that's unconfirmed bullshit.
Now, Lopez Aliaga has the gall to call for the destitution of president Sagasti because he "lied to us" (bruh, you lie even more)
Remember that Willax is, at this point, Peruvian Fox News. They were saying Chile was vaccinating even tourists, which created a rush of people wanting to go to Chile (my own dad wanted to send me to live with my uncle to ensure I get vaccinated) before everyone else, including the Chilean government, went to say that was fake.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 6th 2021 at 10:56:43 AM
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Anka Aquila
Oh yeah, I had heard of those rumours too, my parents were in an uproar saying that the native population should be a priority over the tourists, it doesn't surprise me that it was fake though.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
Shin Megami Tensei IV
My dad making plans to send me to Chile and even calling his brother to give me a space on his house was really, really absurd
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 6th 2021 at 11:48:39 AM
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Anka Aquila
I thought borders were still closed until all of this chaos came down, unless he was planning to do so illegally, which is another host of problems in on itself.
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
Shin Megami Tensei IV
I don't think he cared, my uncle had to tell him "Brother, that's not true"
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Meanwhile, in a bit of personal news, my parents(who are not here in venezuela but in the states) got the vacine as my brother which is awsome news for them and a good showing on what is living in the first world.
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Shin Megami Tensei IV
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I think this is gonna reach It's Personal levels of you.
Willax apologists now are saying that several Cable services stopping airing them is the equivalent at the Chavista-lead systematic destruction of Venezuelan journalists.
Edited by KazuyaProta on Mar 6th 2021 at 2:43:20 PM
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Revealed: The UK supported the coup in Bolivia to gain access to its ‘white gold’
- Lithium – known as ‘white gold’ – is a key metal used in batteries and increasingly important to the world car industry
- Britain’s Foreign Office appears to have paid Oxford-based company to optimise ‘exploitation’ of Bolivia’s lithium deposits the month after Morales fled country
- UK embassy acted as ‘strategic partner’ to coup regime and organised international mining event in Bolivia four months after democracy overthrown
- UK firm founded by British Army veteran was ‘now in line to offer its services’ to mining companies, Foreign Office noted after event
- UK embassy provided data for the now discredited international report which was used to justify 2019 coup
- UK embassy brought cybersecurity company with close links to the CIA to Bolivia in March 2019, eight months before the military takeover
"Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated: “We hope that the current crisis in Bolivia can now be resolved swiftly, peacefully and in a democratic way. The Bolivian people deserve to have the opportunity to vote in free and fair elections.”
Then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn offered a completely different view, saying: “I condemn this coup against the Bolivian people and stand with them for democracy, social justice and independence.”
Raab proceeded to attack Corbyn, quote-tweeting him and stating: “Unbelievable. The Organisation of American States refused to certify the Bolivian election because of systemic flaws. The people are protesting and striking on an unprecedented scale. But @jeremycorbyn puts Marxist solidarity ahead of democracy.”
But Raab and the Foreign Office made no further comments as the new regime’s forces carried out the Sacaba and Senkata massacres the following week."
It's sickening but unsurprising that both the US and the UK would support a fascist coup to gain access to resources.
Still, I'm glad that despite their interference it failed in the end. The people of Bolivia have my respect.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Mar 9th 2021 at 6:57:44 AM
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Anka Aquila
Can somebody please tell me if the Daily Maverick is a legitimate source or not?
Instead of focusing on relatives that divide us, maybe we should try to find the absolutes that tie us.
OEA and HRW are a joke.
Dressed to Kill.
Cursory search of Mint Press News reveals it's known for being highly pro-Assad and pro-Maduro as well as associating with other equally conspiratorial anti-West/pro-dictatorship writers like Max Blumenthal. AKA the "US evil anti-US good" crowd. Real credible indeed.
Edited by Alycus on Mar 13th 2021 at 6:38:39 AM
Peruvian Deliquents AND Venezuelan Delinquents in Peru outright declared war to each other over xenophobic crimes and mass outrage (ie. Venezuelan workers are murdered for Peruvian racists).
Its obviously horrid but I am oddly fascinated at the idea of a race-gang-war. Like, both sides are non-state ones, both sides are utterly hated for mainstream society and both sides are trying to kill each other.
Its gonna be bloody. I can perfectly imagine the amount of constant "represalies" that both groups would do, especially the mass outrage when they start to affect the non-criminal population of Peru (nobody is going to care much for the venezuelan victims, Peruvian society is that screwed at this point).
Edited by KazuyaProta on Feb 22nd 2021 at 7:59:22 AM
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