“Death Collateral” (and human victims were alleged to protect drug networks in Ecuador

Sports gloves and red tape to stay bad, Equivalent Police checked an altar by raiding a drug Holy death – a Mexican “death holiness” accepted by local groups as his talisman.

The eerie statue of a skeleton is the most end of Santa Muerte Shrine in the city of Santa Muerte in the west of the earth in the West, in the west of the Earth in the West.

The verses of money, tobacco, alcohol, sculpture and religious paraphernalia were assembled by the bandits seeking sacred protection.

“The belief will not be charged when they entrusted to Santa Muerte, because Santa Muerte took care of them,” Standan Colonel Roberto Santamaria told AFP.

Sometimes offers are worse.

The former group told AFP that some colleagues were known for human victims.

“They stole children from other cities and sacrificed in front of Santa Muerte when they wanted to go down a large blow,” he said. The man refused to name the name.

Guardian Holy Healing and Protection

Also known as a skinny lady or white girl, Santa Muerte is a holy holy of a guardian and has a prayer for him for a safe transition to thousands of Latin American, protected.

He who believed he returned to Mexico 18th century won the permission of the drugs there. Last November was in Mexico, two women and a boy was shot in an altar Bible to death.

The Bible recently accepted Ecuadorian merchants and Hitmen in Duran – a city that usurped by local residents and exfoliates by terrorist groups.

In addition to making suggestions on the altars, members of the group wears amulates that are like the weapons of the saints and carrying them around their necks.

Santamaria, Santa Muerte’s Ecuadoran Gang Los Choneros members about six years ago, the delay in the other world came from Mexico for training from Sinaloa Cartel.

Police in Duran estimated that they found the sacred altar in about six busts in 2024.

Los Choneros, Ecuadoran President Daniel Noboa’s 20 offenders announced “Terrorist groups” was one of the 20 criminal groups, who wanted to be re-elected, and once in a peaceful crime in the country of peaceful South America.

Last week, the leader of one of the largest criminal sympatherians in Ecuador, Los Lobos, He was arrested in his house In the city on the shore of Portoviejo. This The United States has declared Los Lobos last year Become the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador.

Noboa declared The state of extraordinary and placed troops In prisons in the streets and violence, the previous year resulted in a little dip in the rates of 2024. The President took action after the last year The militants were fired and fired In a television studio and the bandits threatened casual execution of civilians and security forces. The prosecutor investigating the attack was later ridiculous.

Officers began working around the altars

Duran and nearby Guayaquil city, in the epicenter of Ecuador’s violence, a nearby port, and the neighbors of the United States, the United States from Peru and Colombia – are used for the best product manufacturers in the world.

Like Mexico, Ecuador, mainly Catholic country and condemned the experience of describing the death of the church as an identity as in the situation of Santa Muerte.

However, the majority of Ecuadors have not been reconciled and Santa Muerte is taken by a wider society, as well as the descriptions sold in markets or even online.

This can be labeled with the raids of people with Santa Muerte items in their own hands and government attacks.

“They are poor because of their race, because they are poor, they will now be committed to popular customs for popular customs,” said Ecuadoran Social Studies researcher Cristina Burneo AFP said.

In more certificates in your sanctity, Santamaria said many of the officials were afraid to work around the altars.

“Police are starting to feel sick and dizzy after the operations after the operations,” he said, although he did not believe in the authority of the saints.

Police or searches who investigate crime scenery, when there are drugs or ammunition, do not destroy Santa Muerte statues they came across.

“There is freedom of worship in Ecuador and everyone can be, this is not a crime,” Santamariya said.