The explosion of a car bomb around the Penitentiary of the Coast, has shaken the city of Guayaquil on Thursday. The attack, still under investigation, involves a vehicle loaded with dynamite, whose detonation caused the destruction of five parked cars in the vicinity. The violence of the burst left a dead man, a penitentiary agent, and two other people were injured, including a policeman who was part of the external security siege of the prison, as confirmed by the police chief of the Easter sector, where the prison is located.
This attack involves the fourth attack against the Penitentiary of the Coast, a penitentiary center marked by a history of massacres, with at least seven episodes of violence without brake that have left 500 inmates killed in the last four years. The explosion of this morning occurs when a month is missing for the second round of the elections. It also occurs within the framework of, which includes the implementation of the so -called security plan Phoenixof which the only thing that is known is the militarization of security. However, the increase of military in the streets and prisons seems insufficient in front of the overwhelming violence of organized crime.
Only in the first three months of this year ,. This figure increases after the massacre that occurred last week in the Socio Housing 2 neighborhood of Guayaquil, in which in the midst of a struggle of power between two factions of the Los Tiguerones band, which have the total control of that sector, and where the shootings have continued throughout the week, without any response from the authorities.
At dawn, around the penitentiary, the scene was bleak. Police officers were responsible for collecting the dispersed metal fences along Daule Avenue, which crosses the prison enclosure, while the remains of the burned vehicles piled up among the rubble. Merchants in the area swept the broken glass of their showcases, also damaged by the force of the explosion. Violence continues to leave a mark in a city marked by pain and chaos.
