Narco Gangy gun battles kill 22 people in the Severe Ecuadorian port of Guayaquil

One’s opponent fractions Equivalent The drug trade network said in a fierce port city, at least 22 people, and officials said on Thursday.

A number of other clashes in the city were injured in the clashes, the local police said in a statement as a statement increased before 12 dead.

The police source told AFP that this was previously involved in the contradictions of a group named Los Tigones, who was the strongest in the peaceful country.

Ecuador is at home if there are approximately 20 criminal groups drug traffickingThe abduction and usurpation, the world’s largest cocaine producers, Peruvianity sliding on a country in 18 million between Peru and Colombia.

In recent years there are Ecuador entered into violence Quick spread of transnational cartels, using their ports like Guayaquil, send cocaine to the United States and Europe.

For example, crime, in 2018, hit the record in 100,000 in the 67th in 2023.

Experts say the gangs always mutated and grow in profit from the crime.

Guayaquil is the capital of Guayas, the capital of Guayas, the capital of Guayas, one of seven years in the last two months as the government fighting pirates in the last two months. Clashes between rival groups in Guayaquil in February He claimed the lives of 14 people.

Last month, President Daniel Noboa said that this struggle would ask for special countries to be sent to us to help us.

The violence does not allow Ecuadorian gears for the election choice of April 13, which will face Luisa Gonzalez on April 13.

In January, the military said Leader of syvador’s largest crime syndicatedLos Lobos was arrested in his house in his house on the coast of Portoviejo. This The United States has declared Los Lobos last year Become the largest drug trafficking organization in Ecuador.

In 2024 Noboa announced an announcement “Internal armed conflict” condition After a wave of harmful violence, the jailbreaks of a strong criminal boss were burned.