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InSight Crime's 2021 Homicide Round-Up

InSight Crime

1 February 2022

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Ecuador: 14 per 100,000

In our annual GameChangers series, InSight Crime dove into Ecuador's brutal struggles last year, covering a rapid escalation in gang violence, in murder-for-hire and in weapons trafficking, just as the country was battered by COVID-19.

The statistics remain shocking. Ecuador saw 2,464 murders in 2021, almost double the 1,362 seen in 2020, according to the national police. No other country in Latin America and the Caribbean came close to seeing such an increase. Ecuador ended the year with a homicide rate of 14 per 100,000, its highest in a decade.

At least 329 prisoners died in the country's worst jail riots, as the war between the Choneros, Lobos and other gangs spiraled out of control.

(…) The crisis has only escalated in 2022, with far more violent crimes reported in January 2022 than in 2021, including the execution of a suspected Albanian drug lord.

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