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Ecuador Deploys 13,000 Military Personnel in Four Provinces and Initiates a Phase of "Total War"

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A total of 13,000 military personnel began to deploy since Thursday in four of Ecuador's most violent provinces to strengthen operations against organized crime, after President Daniel Noboa decreed on Wednesday a new state of emergency in almost half of the country.The soldiers will leave territories with a lower crime rate to settle in the coastal provinces of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil; Manabi and El Oro, bordering Peru; and in the tr…

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Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa signed a decree this Thursday declaring an “internal armed conflict” in the country in order to “neutralize” any structure that constitutes a threat to the executive branch. This also urges the National Assembly to amnesty anyone who acts “in defense of the state” and grants “immunity” to the foreign military whose deployment the president counts and which was approved in the same text.

·Las Condes, Chile
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Guayaquil (Ecuador), 18 Jun (EFE).- A total of 13,000 military personnel began to deploy since this Thursday in four of Ecuador's most violent provinces to strengthen operations against organized crime, after President Daniel Noboa decreed on Wednesday a new state of emergency in almost half of the country. Soldiers will leave territories with the lowest crime rate to settle in the coastal provinces of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil; Manabi …

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A total of 13,000 military personnel began to deploy since Thursday in four of Ecuador's most violent provinces to strengthen operations against organized crime, after President Daniel Noboa decreed on Wednesday a new state of emergency in almost half of the country.The soldiers will leave territories with a lower crime rate to settle in the coastal provinces of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil; Manabi and El Oro, bordering Peru; and in the tr…

·Madrid, Spain
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Three Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE) aircraft landed almost simultaneously at the Simón Bolívar Air Base in Guayaquil on the afternoon of Thursday, June 18.

·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, decreed a new "state of exception" for 60 days in ten provinces and three cantons (municipalities) of the country, due to "serious internal shock" caused by the increase in criminal violence, the government reported. The decision was adopted by an Executive Decree signed by the president, which provides for the suspension of the rights to inviolability of domicile and correspondence in the provinces of El …

The mass mobilization ordered by President Daniel Noboa will concentrate on the main routes of coastal drug trafficking and coincides with the declaration of a "total war" granting pardons to law enforcement officials. The post Ecuador deploys 13,000 military personnel in four provinces to strengthen security and combat organized crime appeared first on EL NATIONALA.

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TC Televisión broke the news on Thursday, June 18, 2026.
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