Ecuador deports hundreds of prisoners to Colombia

Hundreds of Colombian prisoners deported by the Ecuadorian authorities to dismantle the country’s prisons yesterday, crossing their homeland by crossing an international bridge, triggering strong protests from Bogota, who denounced a “unilateral” decision. Occuping hundreds of Ecuadorian police and military, Colombian detainees, in orange costumes, passed the Rumitsaka Bridge yesterday, the main road connecting the two countries, a French agency reporter found. “We were departed in Colombia and to be,” Juan Ramirez told AFP, who said he spent 15 months in the Latakunga prison, where there was a shortage of food. He said he lived “a very tough Odyssey there, at least one detainee died of hunger.” “At least, now they brought us here,” he continued. “The Colombian Migration Service does not even know how we arrived, from one moment to another, unannounced.” Ecuador’s government said it ordered this mass expulsion, which began Friday, to decompose prisons […]
Source: News Beast

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