LatinNews Daily - 21 March 2018

Ecuador: President Lenín Moreno has announced that three members of Ecuador’s armed forces (FFAA) were killed in a bomb attack on 20 March against soldiers patrolling the Mataje area, in Ecuador’s coastal province of Esmeraldas, on the border with Colombia. The government did not release further information regarding who was responsible. It follows two armed incidents which took place in San Lorenzo canton, Esmeraldas province, on 18 March which left four members of Ecuador’s FFAA injured. President Moreno declared a state of emergency in the area following a car bomb attack on 27 January, also in San Lorenzo, which injured 24 civilians and four police officers. That incident was attributed to a dissident leader of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas, known as ‘Guacho’ (Walter Artízala). On 17 February, an Ecuadorean army border patrol in the same area came under fire from the Colombian side of the border, and two soldiers were wounded. Following the latest bomb attack, President Moreno said he had called a meeting of the binational border committee (Combifron) as well as the ministers of security and foreign relations from both countries.

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