Ecuador declares emergency over drug violence, orders troops onto streets

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Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso announces state of emergency, saying troops and police 'will be felt with force in the streets' in bid to curb drug-related crimes

In this file photo taken on September 1, 2021 Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso delivers a speech at the Manuela Canizares public high school in the capital Quito.

Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has declared a state of emergency in the country grappling with a surge in drug-related violence, and ordered the mobilisation of police and military in the streets. "Starting immediately, our Armed Forces and police will be felt with force in the streets because we are decreeing a state of emergency throughout the national territory," said the president in a speech broadcast by the state channel EcuadorTV.

"In the streets of Ecuador there is only one enemy: drug trafficking," declared the right-wing leader, adding that "in recent years Ecuador has gone from being a drug trafficking country to one that also consumes drugs." Earlier Monday, Lasso named a new defence minister as the country reels from a massive prisons crisis.

 

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