{"id":11707,"date":"2022-05-09T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/?p=11707"},"modified":"2022-05-09T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T13:17:07","slug":"ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-drug-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2022\/05\/09\/ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-drug-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador Declares State of Emergency in Response to Drug Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Madeline Field<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced the reimposition of a state of emergency last Friday in three crime-ridden provinces, Guayas, Manab\u00ed, and Esmeraldas, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/ecuador-declares-emergency-three-provinces-rising-crime-2022-04-30\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports. The measure, which went into effect on April 30, will remain in place for 60 days. More than 9,000 members of the police and military are expected to help enforce the government\u2019s curfew from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM and restore law and order in the streets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ecuador has been rocked by a wave of violence, much of it drug-related, since Lasso, a right-wing politician, took office last May. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/ecuadoreans-say-presidents-crackdown-gangs-fails-curb-violence-2021-12-15\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, violent deaths soared 53 percent in 2021 with more than 2,000, setting a 10-year record. 1,255 people were killed in the first four months of the year, almost the same number as those killed in the entirety of 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lasso has largely blamed the bloodshed on gangs and drug violence. Ecuador sits between Peru and Colombia, the two largest cocaine producers in the world, and is a point of transit for suppliers looking to sell in the United States or Europe. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telesurenglish.net\/news\/Ecuador-State-of-Emergency-in-Provinces-for-Lack-of-Security-20220429-0027.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TeleSur<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reports that two prominent gangs in the three provinces under a state of emergency, Los Tiguerones and Los Choneros, are allied with Mexican drug cartels, reflecting the increase in gang-style violence throughout Ecuador.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drug seizures have also hit record heights in the past year and a half. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/ecuador-s-president-seeks-cabinet-change-amid-rise-in-gang-violence-01651188007\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Barron\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the Ecuadorian government seized 210 tons of drugs in 2021, and in the first quarter of 2022 alone, confiscated 75 tons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recent seizures and arrests have come at a price. Thousands of rival gang members, imprisoned in recent crackdowns by police and the military, are now taking over the country\u2019s jails. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/30\/ecuador-declares-emergency-in-three-provinces-over-drug-violence\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Al Jazeera<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, almost 400 prisoners have been killed in jail massacres since last February. A recent report commissioned by President Lasso found that conditions in prisons had deteriorated significantly, turning them into \u201chuman warehouses and centers of torture,\u201d Barron\u2019s continued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Ecuadorian government has argued that last year\u2019s state of emergency was effective enough to reinstate a new one. During that period, 230,000 operations were conducted, 7,000 people were arrested, 76 gangs were broken up, 16 tons of drugs were seized, and murders in the city of Guayaquil fell 22 percent, Reuters adds.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, experts and citizens claim the opposite, arguing that the government\u2019s hardline approach has done little to address the root cause of the recent explosion in crime: economic hardship. Poverty has risen 7 percent since the start of the pandemic, pushing the drug trade further to the front of Ecuador\u2019s economy. In addition, Ecuador\u2019s recent litany of presidential turmoil has contributed to the weakening of institutions dedicated to law and order. Just last week, Lasso demanded the resignation of his entire cabinet in an effort to \u201cguarantee the welfare of each citizen,\u201d Barron\u2019s writes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scholars argue that effective public policy is the key to reforming the country, but extreme legislation aimed at targeting drug trafficking has thus far failed. Reuters adds that recent bills proposed by the legislature have pushed legalizing shooting down unauthorized planes, lengthening sentences for gang leaders, and heightening the militarization of drug operations. These seemingly hardline policies reflect the radical turn Ecuador has taken in the recent year in an attempt to fight back against drug violence. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced the reimposition of a state of emergency last Friday in three crime-ridden provinces, Guayas, Manab\u00ed, and Esmeraldas, Reuters reports. The measure, which went into effect on April 30, will remain in place for 60 days. More than 9,000 members of the police and military are expected to help enforce the government\u2019s curfew from 11:00 PM to 5:00 AM and restore law and order in the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5032,"featured_media":11708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2313,384],"tags":[680,1080,2098,2131],"class_list":["post-11707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2313","category-americas","tag-ecuador","tag-state-of-emergency","tag-americas","tag-drug-trade"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ecuador Declares State of Emergency in Response to Drug Violence - The Diplomatic Envoy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2022\/05\/09\/ecuador-declares-state-of-emergency-in-response-to-drug-violence\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ecuador Declares State of Emergency in Response to Drug Violence - The Diplomatic Envoy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso announced the reimposition of a state of emergency last Friday in three crime-ridden provinces, Guayas, Manab\u00ed, and Esmeraldas, Reuters reports. 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