Santa Elena.-Person and Megacas boats in the style of President Nayeb Bokil in El Salvador. The amazing proposals to strengthen the prison system in Ecuador gave a reputation to President Daniel Nuboa, but a few days after the completion of his first term, there is nothing but delay and silence.
The Ecuadorians referred to violence in drug trafficking gangs, and went to the polls last week to re -introduce Noboa as a president for his left -wing rival Luisa Gonzalez.
The president focused the campaign on the continuity of his difficult policy against the crime that included the promise to expand the prison system.
But only one of the two residents who ordered construction in 2024 progress, at a slow pace. The prison did not speak again.
Prison bases at the poor meeting in the Pacific Ocean, in the Santa Elena coast (southwest). Its residents live without drinking water, internet connection, or health center.
The NOBOA project is accessed by a gravel -paved road, narrow and rain.
In October, the authorities stated that the work was 30 %. The director at the time of the agency that runs the prison (SNAI), Luis Zalumbid, launched a promise: The prison for 800 people will be prepared in a “record” of 300 days. The deadline ends in May.
About thirty men attacked work with explosives and killed a worker in December.
“After the explosion, everything stopped, but since February, we see four or five cars that come with materials and military every day,” says Welcome Salinas, a local farmer.
Peasants do not dare go to the site. He says: “It is full of army, and if they see us, they will take us out.”
A day before the first symbolic stone authorities laid, government officials gathered settlers.
“They have informed us of imprisonment,” says Omar Lines, the leader of the community of 4 thousand people.
He adds that the lands “are our ancestors of the right of the ancestors and we have the title of property” to be the descendants of the pre -Colombian people.
Cecot pattern
The Prison Authority claimed the “security” reasons for not providing information about the progress of the work.
The prison intends to occupy 16.2 hectares. The plans include six high monitoring towers 9.5 meters and nine liters. In addition, phone signal blockers, internet signals and a closed TV circuit will be installed.
The prison project was inspired by the design of the CECOT Center, which was built by an agent, with the ability of 40,000 people and white criticism to offend human rights.
“We have drew small birds, which would have built many works. They only gave us a field,” says Mercedes Linz, who rejects the project.
In principle, Nubua said that the company that built Salvadwan Megapron will be responsible for doing so in Ecuador.
However, a $ 52 million contract was granted the Spanish bridges and road infrastructures, a company affiliated with a Chinese company.
“The country is not present to continue making prisons. We can avoid these expenses and strengthen the current prison system,” says Mario Bazimian, security expert and former Ecuadorian army intelligence chief.
No plans or work
There is the largest prison complex in Ecuador in the port of Gawayakale (southwest) and was the scene of brutal massacres among prisoners who have been left since 2021.
“Ecuador always looks at El Salvador, but everything is part of a political discourse, not the rehabilitation of prison,” Bazmiano added.
Noboa offered a second security prison to isolate gangsters. In principle, they will be in Amazon Archidonna, but protests from the indigenous people and the forced Mestsus to transfer the project.
If the first prison looks little, then there is nothing from the second. The designated land is full of weeds.
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