ACI Prensa Staff, Jan 10, 2024 / 18:00 pm
The bishops of Ecuador published a statement titled “Violence will not prevail” following recent disturbances that occurred in the country including the takeover of a television station in the city of Guayaquil in the midst of a state of emergency that began on Jan. 8.
In a Jan. 9 message addressed “to all men and women of goodwill living in Ecuador,” the bishops said that “organized crime is sowing, in the day to day of our lives, chaos and despair.”
“Violence, wherever it comes from, must find us united, looking ahead, and with the strength necessary for Ecuador to be what it has always been, a place of peace, of work, of fraternity.”
The prelates encouraged Ecuadorans not to fall “either into the fruitless panic that the game played by the violent [perpetrators] creates by giving credence to any alarmist image shared on social media, nor into the naivete of standing idly by believing that this fight is only for those who govern us.”