Ecuadorean councilwoman shot dead Friday

[Judi Lynn]

Friday, February 9th 2024 - 10:52 UTC



Ecuador's so-called “internal armed conflict” added a victim to its list of fatalities late Wednesday when 29-year-old Councilwoman Diana Carnero from the coastal municipality of Naranjal was shot dead in what is believed to be a murder-for-hire case.

As per President Daniel Noboa's latest decisions, the Armed Forces have been empowered to assist law enforcement agencies in controlling the cities where on some occasions drug-trafficking gangs reign supreme.

Carnero was gunned down in the middle of a street in the Corona 2 sector of Naranjal, a municipality in the coastal province of Guayas, whose capital is Guayaquil. According to Vistazo magazine, the councilwoman, from the Citizen Revolution movement, led by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017), died in a health center in Naranjal, where she was rushed after the attack.

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Cantero thus joined the list of prosecutors, judges, and politicians to be murdered, such as Manta Mayor Agustin Intriago, or presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.

More:
https://en.mercopress.com/2024/02/09/ecuadorean-councilwoman-shot-dead

[Judi Lynn]

1. Ecuadorian councillor, 29, executed in broad daylight while filming video about roads

9 February 2024, 09:48 | Updated: 9 February 2024, 09:54



By Asher McShane

@ashermcs
An Ecuadorian politician was executed in broad daylight in front of a crowd while filming a video about the bad state of the roads in her town.


Diana Carnero, 29, had just chaired a meeting in the town of Naranjal in Guayas after leaving a council meeting.

Two men rode up to her on a motorbike and shot her in the head before fleeing. No arrests have been made.

A local posted about her death: "Diana was 29 years old. This is a nightmare. A hug to her family and all of Naranjal. When you have children of that age, you understand what their parents must be suffering. They cut short the life of a promise for Naranjal and the Homeland. What a disgrace!”

Blanca Lopez, Guayaquil's deputy mayor, posted: "This must end, wanting better days for our cantons, provinces and country cannot mean putting our lives at risk." These words come after the recent spike in violence in the area, highlighted by the murder of Carnero.



More:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/ecuadorian-councillor-29-executed-in-broad-daylight-roads-video/

[Easterncedar]

2. How can violence come so easy?

This is so sad and shocking

[Judi Lynn]

3. In countries with a massive poor population, wealthy power-directed groups can quickly tap desperate, poor people

to do their dirty work for them. All that's ever needed is ruthless people at the top and desperate people at the bottom.

Keeping a constantly desperate poor majority insures a constant supply of assassins. Tha t has been continual in all poor countries, or countries controlled by wealthy outside interests who depend upon the natural resources, or the cheap labor populations, or wildly corrupt brutal politicians who work for them, at the top.

No progressive, no concerned or courageous politicians, journalists, or social activists ever is not considered a target. It really helps them keep the resistance to a minimum, clearly!

[Easterncedar]

4. The historic cause being exploitation

By American oligarchs with the violent support of our government. I struggle to think of a single example where our intervention has been benign in intent or result. Got one?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Let's see, that's a tough one! Actually, not so much, is it?

A certain deatdly segment of the population honed it's appetite after its genocidal triumph with the First Americans, and simultaneously developed its powerful denial skills claiming that never happened, and blaming it all on the victims. First Americans nearly driven into extinction by the First Trumps.

You can't imagine how much I appreciate your post!

[Easterncedar]

6. It was all made easier by the first plagues carried in

So many Europeans of the second landings were able to imagine they were claiming uninhabited land. And down through the centuries the greed and evil expand. How did our story of decency and democratic ideals end in the School of the Americas?

I was raised on the ideals. I wised up early - Vietnam era - but it still hurts somehow to know how false that narrative always was.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Same here. Do you remember when "The Ugly American" was published?

We thought we had all made a breakthrough, in reading about it.

Little did we know, Washington had been behaving like that a long time already! The difference was, no one knew!

Here's hoping someday we're going to get far more light on the history of what Washington and the military actually did to the Native people. More light, not less, like the Trumperfolk demand.

[Easterncedar]

8. Yes. Here's hoping.

Right with you.