80 murders in three days: the massacres once again frighten Ecuador. Five young people under the age of 21 were shot and killed last Friday in the small fishing community of Puerto López.

The next day, in the Guasmo neighborhood of Guayaquil, ten other men were shot down while playing a volleyball game. The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, reacted this Monday with the same speech as always. “We will never give in to crime and organized crime,” he said.