An influencer and his wife are shot to death at a circus in a coastal city in Ecuador

According to information spread on social networks, journalist Josué Suárez was also injured when he was broadcasting the entrance of people to the circus live on the internet.

Nieto, who was also an alternate (replacement) legislator for the Citizen Revolution movement, had attended the show as one of its organizers, as a tribute to the Children’s Day celebrated on June 1, according to several digital portals.

This crime of people from political and public life in Ecuador has been repeated in several occasions in recent years.

Last March, Brigitte García, mayor of the coastal city of San Vicente, also in the province of Manabí, was shot dead, despite the fact that a state of emergency decreed by the Government was then in force to stop the spiral of violence that had taken place. recorded at the beginning of the year.

Brigitte García, 27 years oldwas considered the youngest mayor in the country and he was also a militant of the Citizen Revolution movement, led by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).

García’s crime had occurred less than two months after the shooting of Diana Carnero, councilor of the coastal municipality of Naranjal, in the province of Guayas, which occurred on February 7 and also in the midst of the state of emergency.

Carnero, 29, was shot dead by hitmen in the middle of a public street in Naranjal, a municipality near the city.d port of Guayaquil.

President Daniel Noboa declared at the beginning of January, when he had not even been in power for two months, a state of exception and decreed a situation of internal armed conflict to try to stop the spiral of violence in prisons and on the streets nationwide. attributed to organized crime groups.

By declaring the “internal armed conflict,” the Government identified at least 22 transnational organized crime groups and classified them “as terrorist organizations” and “belligerent non-state actors.”

The spiral of violence was unleashed just after President Noboa announced his decision to launch his ‘Plan Féénix’, with the aim of regaining control of prisonsmany of them dominated by criminal groups, whose rivalries have left more than 450 prisoners murdered since 2020 in a series of prison massacres.

This violence also moved to the streets until Ecuador became one of the most violent countries in the region, with 45 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023.

On April 21, Ecuadorians participated in a referendum and popular consultation on various issues of security, justice, investments and employment.

The voters then approved the possibility of the Armed Forces participating in internal security actions in support of the Police, especially in the fight against organized crime, without the need for resort to states of emergency.

EFE