Mayor shot dead in Ecuador. Brigitte García, head of the coastal municipality of San Vicente, is the third councilor to be victim of organized crime in a year.
It is the first crime of its kind faced by the Government of Daniel Noboa, who decreed a state of emergency and the existence of an internal armed conflict on January 9. The crime deepens the insecurity crisis that Ecuador has been experiencing for three years, but despite the permanent states of exception, the governments have not managed to control the violence.