The President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, commented ironically on… Possible protests that may arise from the treatment received by the 300 prisoners, Among them is former Vice President Jorge Glas, who has been transferred to the new high-security prison in Santa Elena. “They will start with the complainer,” he wrote on his X account, posting a photo of himself. The supposed hair of inmates whose heads have been shavedHe also appears in other pictures in which he “welcomes” them to this prison, which is part of his electoral promises.
The Santa Elena prison center, which Noboa called the Cárcel del Encuentro, was One of the two prisons “Bukele style” Which he promised during the turbulent 2023 election campaign. In just two years, they built these facilities in a rugged, forested area on the southwest coast. The other project was less fortunate as it intended to build another center with the same characteristics in the province of Napo, in the heart of the Amazon, but was rejected by local communities.
The Cárcel del Encuentro, whose construction also faced protests from the only rural community in its surroundings, extends over 16.2 hectares to accommodate more than 730 people within its walls. Like Bukele Prison, it was built to make room for Bukele prisoners Gangsters from different criminal gangsAt a time when Ecuador is witnessing one of its worst security crises in recent decades, due to which Noboa issued a decree regarding a state of internal unrest.
The transfer of these first three hundred prisoners was similar, though not as exciting, to what Bukele usually presents when he reports that a new shipment of gang members has been sent to Sikot, which is both admired and questioned.
These three hundred prisoners were transferred hours after a new massacre occurred in an Ecuadorian prison, this time in Machala in the neighboring province of El Oro, which left about thirty people dead and dozens injured, in another example of the country’s unstable prison system.
Other “famous” prisoners will go to prison
President Noboa’s Star Prison Project houses more than 420 people on charges of terrorism-related crimes within its walls, and criminal gang activities were included under this classification, or corruption, after the arrival of these 300.
In addition to the aforementioned former president Glass, convicted of various corruption cases, they are part of the prison population Other prominent criminals, such as Carlos Edwin Angulo, He was convicted of his involvement in the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
Angulo, known as “Invisible”, is one of the leaders of Los Lobos, who like many other prisoners was transferred from La Roca, a maximum security prison located in Guayas, which has already seen better times.
Others The prison residents are the leaders of Los ChonerosRolando Gomez Quinde, alias “Fiddy,” who was recently arrested in Colombia; Celso Moreira Heredia, known as “Patocho Celso”; The second number in the squad, Dario Peñafiel Nieto, nicknamed “Molly”, with an extradition request from the United States.
The leader of the Chone Killers, Julio Alberto Martinez, alias “Negro Tulio”, convicted of terrorism, is one of the people transferred in the last few hours to Santa Elena, which has received prisoners from provinces such as Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo, Manabi, Los Ríos, Pichincha and Azuay.
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