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Ecuador-related events during 2024
Events in the year 2024 in
Ecuador .
Incumbents
Events
9 January –
2024 conflict in Ecuador : President
Daniel Noboa declares a
state of emergency following the escape of
José Adolfo Macías Villamar , leader of the
Los Choneros drug cartel, from prison. The gangsters storm a
TC Televisión newsroom in
Guayaquil and launch a series of riots, kidnappings and explosions across the country.
[1]
11 January – Researchers discover the
Upano Valley sites , a network of ancient cities that is the oldest known settlement in the
Amazon .
[2]
14 January –
2024 Ecuadorian conflict : All 178 prison employees held hostage in at least seven prisons are released.
[3]
15 January – Forty-three prisoners
escape a prison in
Esmeraldas .
[4]
18 January – Public prosecutor
Cesar Suarez who was investigating the gang attack on TC Television, is killed.
[5]
22 January – 68 gang members are arrested after storming a hospital in
Yaguachi .
[6]
7 February – The
Supreme Court of Ecuador decriminalizes euthanasia, becoming the second Latin American country to do so.
[7]
9 February –
Naranjal councilwoman
Diana Carnero is killed.
[8]
24 March –
San Vicente mayor
Brigitte García , the youngest mayor in the country, and one of her advisors are found shot dead in
Manabí Province .
[9]
31 March – Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil.
[10]
4 April – Ecuador orders the expulsion of the Mexican ambassador
Raquel Serur Smeke after President
Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes comments deemed inappropriate on the effect of the
Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio on the
2023 Ecuadorian general election .
[11]
5 April – Former vice president
Jorge Glas is arrested by Ecuadorian police after they
raid the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he had sought asylum. In response, Mexico announces that it will break off relations with Ecuador, saying that some its diplomats were injured in the raid.
[12]
6 April –
Nicaragua suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
[13]
16 April –
Venezuela closes its diplomatic missions in Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy.
[14]
21 April –
Ecuadorian constitutional referendum :Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes
[15]
Scheduled events
Deaths
9 January:
Diego Gallardo , 31, singer-songwriter, shot
[17]
17 January:
César Suárez , 38, prosecutor
[18]
7 February:
Diana Carnero , 29, politician, shot.
[19]
9 February:
Jenny Estrada , 83, journalist, writer and historian.
[20]
28 February:
Félix Aráuz , 88, painter.
[21]
Holidays
Source:
[22]
References
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"Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate" . AP News . 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-09 .
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"Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon" . 2024-01-11. Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
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"Ecuador prison staff held hostage by inmates all freed" . Al Jazeera . Retrieved 2024-01-15 .
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"Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured" . MercoPress . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV studio shot dead" . Al Jazeera . Retrieved 2024-01-18 .
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"Ecuador police arrest gang members who stormed hospital" . 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
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"Ecuador becomes second Latin American state to decriminalise euthanasia" . 2024-02-08. Retrieved 2024-03-01 .
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"Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown" .
Financial Times . Retrieved 2024-02-09 .
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"Ecuador's youngest mayor found shot to death alongside staffer" .
Reuters . March 25, 2024.
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"Zeker dertien mensen doodgeschoten door gewapende bendes in Ecuador" . nos.nl (in Dutch). 2024-03-31. Retrieved 2024-04-01 .
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"Ecuador declares Mexican ambassador persona non grata and says she will leave 'shortly' " . Associated Press . 5 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024 .
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"Mexico's president says country will break diplomatic ties with Ecuador, after police raid embassy" . Associated Press . 5 April 2024. Retrieved 6 April 2024 .
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"Nicaragua cuts diplomatic ties with Ecuador after raid on Mexican embassy" . Associated Press. April 6, 2024.
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"Venezuela closes its embassy in Ecuador to protest the police raid on the Mexican Embassy there" . Associated Press . April 17, 2024.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-sets-april-21-referendum-tightening-security-2024-02-14/
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"Ecuador. Inicia la preparación para el próximo Congreso Eucarístico Internacional" [Ecuador. Preparation begins for the next International Eucharistic Congress] (in Spanish). Vatican News. October 26, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2023 .
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"El músico Diego Gallardo falleció por una bala perdida en medio del caos de violencia en Guayaquil" . www.ecuavisa.com (in Spanish). 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-02-28 .
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"Ecuador prosecutor investigating TV studio attack shot dead in his vehicle, attorney general says - CBS News" . www.cbsnews.com . 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-02-28 .
^ K.G. (2024-02-08).
"A manos de sicarios murió Diana Carnero, concejal de Ecuador" . www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-28 .
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"Ha muerto la periodistan Jenny Estrada" . La República EC (in Spanish). 2024-02-09. Retrieved 2024-02-28 .
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"Fallece Félix Aráuz, el 'artista de las caritas', a los 88 años" . El Universo (in Spanish). 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28 .
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"Ecuador Public Holidays 2024" . Public Holidays Global . Retrieved 24 November 2023 .
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