{"id":240726,"date":"2023-10-14T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T03:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=240726"},"modified":"2023-10-14T11:53:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T03:53:10","slug":"nearly-100-thousand-troops-will-guard-oct-15-elections-in-ecuador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=240726","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 100 thousand troops will guard Oct 15 elections in Ecuador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/181B9\/production\/_130854789_96c88b685626d295a8ec2d8e902efa5edc4d27aa-1.jpg\" alt=\"Ecuadorean presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez addresses her supporters in Quito. Photo: 20 August 2023\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>QUITO, Oct 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8212; The Security Cabinet of Ecuador met to discuss the police and military operation for Sunday&#8217;s presidential elections, when some 100,000 troops will be deployed in the national territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, led the meeting held on Friday at the Carondelet Palace, headquarters of the Executive, where the authorities reiterated that 53,707 police officers and 42,296 military personnel will provide protection to the population during voting day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the Presidency\u2019s social network, Lasso asked the Armed Forces and the National Police to \u201credouble their efforts and ensure a peaceful election day, for the good of democracy and the Ecuadorians who will express themselves this Sunday with their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Government, also on Sunday more than nine thousand officials from the Ministry of Health network, the Risk Management Secretariat and the Integrated Security Service will be active to respond to any emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 13.4 million Ecuadorians are called to decide the future of the country through the polls in a process that takes place in the midst of the greatest wave of insecurity in the country and that will again be carried out under a state of exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the increase in criminal acts, the country is suffering an escalation in political violence, with 88 cases of attacks between 2022 and 2023 on officials, candidates or their relatives, making these the most violent elections in the history of Ecuador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luisa Gonz\u00e1lez, from the left-wing Citizen Revolution movement, and Daniel Noboa, from the right-wing National Democratic Action alliance, will face each other on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the sociologist and communicator, Irene Le\u00f3n, the electoral moment is presented as a path of no return, since the geopolitical, socioeconomic and strategic commitments, part of the neoliberal agenda are at stake, against which the Citizen Revolution puts a sovereignty project first and common good. &#8212; NNN-PRENSA LATINA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUITO, Oct 14 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) &#8212; The Security Cabinet of Ecuador met to discuss the police and military operation for Sunday&#8217;s presidential elections, when some 100,000 troops will be deployed in the national territory. The Ecuadorian president, Guillermo Lasso, led the meeting held on Friday at the Carondelet Palace, headquarters of the Executive, where the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":240727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240726"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240728,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240726\/revisions\/240728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/240727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}