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The November 2024 Guayaquil prison riot occurred on 12 November 2024 at the notoriously overcrowded Litoral Penitentiary/Guayas 1 Prison in Guayaquil, Ecuador, killing at least 17 and injuring 15 people in clashes of drug gangs with connections to Mexican and Colombian drug cartels.
Reports of armed attacks throughout Guayaquil and other parts of the country were widespread, occurring primarily in prisons, markets, roads, and universities. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The large-scale attacks were a combination of responses to the escape of Los Choneros leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar in Guayaquil, [ 15 ] and President Daniel Noboa ...
For Martha Macias, the former director of Guayaquil's biggest penitentiary, "the drug traffickers of today are the grandchildren of the Latin Kings and Netas who operated in Quito and Guayaquil ...
The gun - a 9-milimeter pistol - blazed a violent trail even by the standards of one of Ecuador's most dangerous neighborhoods, the Nueva Prosperina precinct of Guayaquil. Shell casings from ...
13 September – María Daniela Icaza, director of the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, the largest prison in Ecuador, is shot dead in a vehicle by gunmen believed to be working for drug gangs. [30] 24–25 September – At least six people are injured in wildfires that break out around Quito. One person is arrested on suspicion of arson. [31]
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (Reuters) -Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was returned to prison hours after he was temporarily evacuated for security reasons amid chaotic scenes inside the jail ...
9 January: Violence succeeding the escape from prison of José Adolfo Macías Villamar escalates into armed conflict with a hostage-taking at a television studio in Guayaquil and an attack on the University of Guayaquil. 13 September: Maria Daniela Icaza, director of Litoral Penitentiary is fatally shot in her vehicle by suspected drug gang ...
August 12, 1973 – an explosion in or near the grounds of the US Consulate General in Guayaquil was reported. No further information is available. [4]September 1, 1978 – eight people were wounded and heavy material damage was sustained from a bomb left at a public phone in the offices of El Universo newspaper in the coastal city of Guayaquil. [5]