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Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, in office since November, announced a 60-day mobilization of soldiers, sending them into city streets and prisons as they search for fugitive gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, nicknamed “Fito.”

The President also announced that a curfew is being established from 11 pm to 5 am.

The state of emergency will give members of the armed forces “all political and legal support” to carry out their duties in the fight against “narco-terrorists”, the president said in an Instagram video.

“We will not negotiate with terrorists and we will not rest until we give peace to all Ecuadorians,” Noboa said.

Police found 44-year-old Los Choneros gang leader Fito missing on Sunday while checking a prison in the port city of Guayaquil. He is believed to have escaped a few hours before police arrived.

Prosecutors said they had opened an investigation and charged two prison officers involved in Fito’s escape.

Since 2011, Fito has been serving a 34-year prison sentence for organized crime, drug trafficking and murder. This is his second escape from prison. He escaped for the first time in 2013, but was caught three months later.

2024-01-09 05:18:54
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Ecuador’s president, Daniel Noboa, in office since November, announced a 60-day mobilization of soldiers, sending them into city streets and prisons as they search for fugitive gangster Jose Adolfo Macias, nicknamed “Fito.”

The President also announced that a curfew is being established from 11 pm to 5 am.

The state of emergency will give members of the armed forces “all political and legal support” to carry out their duties in the fight against “narco-terrorists”, the president said in an Instagram video.

“We will not negotiate with terrorists and we will not rest until we give peace to all Ecuadorians,” Noboa said.

Police found 44-year-old Los Choneros gang leader Fito missing on Sunday while checking a prison in the port city of Guayaquil. He is believed to have escaped a few hours before police arrived.

Prosecutors said they had opened an investigation and charged two prison officers involved in Fito’s escape.

Since 2011, Fito has been serving a 34-year prison sentence for organized crime, drug trafficking and murder. This is his second escape from prison. He escaped for the first time in 2013, but was caught three months later.

2024-01-09 05:18:54
#Ecuador #declares #state #emergency #curfew #drug #lord #escapes #prison

“So many mistakes were made. Look, I think, frankly, something could have been agreed upon,” Trump said at a campaign event in Newton, Iowa. “I think it could have been negotiated. All the people died. So many people died.”

The former president’s comments came a little more than a week before the first polls in Iowa, where he is far ahead of his closest rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, in the polls.

Civil war has become an unlikely talking point in elections. More than a week before Trump’s comments, Haley responded to a question about the cause of the Civil War without mentioning slavery, which was the driving force behind the war. She has since backtracked, saying repeatedly that she thought the fact was self-evident.

Trump’s comments were not made in response to or reference to Haley’s comments.

In fact, before the Civil War began, there were a series of efforts to reach an agreement to preserve the Union. But the future of slavery in the South failed to be resolved through compromise, and the nation went to war with itself. Trump did not say how he would have averted the conflict, which he also called “so terrible but so exciting.”

“It was, I don’t know, it was just different,” Trump said of the war. “That’s what attracts me so much.”

2024-01-07 21:33:30
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Although the investigation into the incident, during which the plane caught fire, is still ongoing, experts believe that the successful evacuation was due to modern safety standards and Japan Airlines’ strict safety culture.

“From what I saw on the footage, I was surprised and relieved that everyone got out,” says Graham Braithwaite, professor of safety and accident investigation at Britain’s Cranfield University.

“That’s as much impact as any plane has to take. But knowing what I know about this airline and how much effort they put into safety and crew training, the fact that they did such a good job shouldn’t come as a surprise .”

In fact, it was a catastrophic accident nearly 40 years ago that helped Japan Airlines become such a safe airline, he says.

On August 12, 1985, JAL Flight 123 from Tokyo to Osaka crashed, killing 520 of the 524 passengers on board, after Boeing technicians – not airline employees – improperly repaired the tail section following an earlier incident.

To this day, it is the worst air disaster in the history of aviation, in which one aircraft was killed.

“Obviously it hit the airline very hard,” says Braithwaite. “In a culture like Japan, they took responsibility as a group and wanted to make sure nothing like that happened again. So when something fails, they look at it as a lesson. There’s room for improvement.”

In 2005, aware that many employees were joining the company with no memory of the accident 20 years earlier, JAL opened a room at its corporate headquarters that displayed parts of the plane’s wreckage, as well as the stories of the crew and passengers.

“The feeling was that we have people coming into our company who don’t know what it’s like when an accident happens. Everyone needs to understand how much effort goes into safety,” says Braithwaite.

Nearly four decades later, the crash still has a deep impact on the company’s mentality, he says.

“They have a very strict culture of standard operating procedures and doing everything the right way. That’s one of the reasons why, in this case, I think the crew seems to have done such a good job,” he says.

While it’s unclear who was to blame for Tuesday’s disaster, Braithwaite says the successful evacuation is “absolutely” a positive for Japan Airlines.

JAL is regularly ranked among the world’s safest airlines in its annual list by Airlineratings.com.

2024-01-03 09:07:00
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