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Explosive devices received through the mail have been directed at journalists throughout Ecuador. When he opened the envelope in the middle of the newsroom, one presenter, Lenin Artieda, suffered injuries.
According to him, the explosive device resembled a USB drive. It exploded when he hooked it to his computer.
The office of Ecuador’s attorney general acknowledged on Monday that it has started a terrorism investigation into the letters.
The individual news publications targeted were not identified. The letters were nonetheless sent to at least five separate organizations in Ecuador.
The attacks have been denounced by the government, which called for the protection of free speech.
It issued a statement that read, “Any attempt to intimidate journalists and freedom of expression is a vile deed that should be punished with all the rigor of law.
Juan Zapata, the interior minister, claimed that the gadgets were all shipped from the same place. Two were delivered to the capital, Quito, while three were despatched to media outlets in Guayaquil.
While the device hurt Mr. Artieda, other bombs delivered through the mail either didn’t go off or were never opened.
Prosecutors acknowledged that one of the bombs supplied to TC Television was controlled and detonated by police.
These included “military-type” explosives, according to Ecuador’s head of forensic science.
The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, attributed the rise in violence to the struggle among drug trafficking gangs for territory and power.
The Andes nation has seen a substantial increase in homicides and gang-related crime in recent months. The nation serves as a corridor for the smuggling of cocaine from Peru and Colombia, two nearby countries.
Three of the explosives were shipped to Guayaquil, Ecuador’s second-largest city, where there have been extreme levels of violence, including the hanging of severed bodies from pedestrian bridges and violent jail riots between rival gangs.
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