A new prison riot left part of the Guayaquil regional prison penitentiary center in flames this Wednesday. Images and videos have been released of inmates burning mattresses and brandishing sticks while gunshots are heard.
In other videos, the detainees complain to the president, Daniel Noboa, that they are being mistreated by the military. Ecuador's prisons have been militarized since January 8, when the Noboa Government faced its first mutiny in seven prisons in the country simultaneously. Under the state of emergency, the Armed Forces have carried out more than 200,000 control operations.