‘We are at war’: Ecuador’s president vows to crack down on gangs behind week of violence
‘We are at war’: Ecuador’s president vows to crack down on gangs behind week of violence
After criminals storm TV station and take prison guards hostage, Daniel Noboa pledges to stop his country becoming a narco-state
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Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, has denied that his government is embarking on an indiscriminate campaign to hunt down and kill gang members, as the South American country continues to reel from a week of chaos and deadly violence that he has classified as a war.
In his first interviews since the turmoil began last Monday, Ecuador’s 36-year-old leader said he was determined to stop his country becoming a “narco-state” and believed the only way to do so was with a hardline crackdown on the organised crime groups bringing “terror” to its prison system and streets.