Police broke into embassy in Mexico City on Friday to arrest Ecuador’s former vice-PM Jorge Glas, who had sought asylum there since December following corruption charges.
his disappearance sparked riots across the country in at least five prisons nationwide, and then we saw a state of emergency announced on monday as well by president noboa, 60 days including overnight curfew, as this unprecedented violence gripped the country and shocked the entire nation. ecuador is not used to this complete eruption of unprecedented brutality pouring into its streets, gangs retaliated against the state, they also took and stormed a live tv broadcast on station tc in that same city, guayaquil, so, complete chaos countrywide but this is unprecedented for a country which only a few years ago was relatively tranquil so ecuadorians have been really shaken by this. and we were just reporting about the release of these prison staff, how safe do they feel to go back to work and how safe is the country considered at the moment, can the leaders in the country allay any fears that
criminal organizations or terrorists according to the government. we cannot show you what is on my right hand because authorities have asked us not to point the camera that way. but right next to us is the building where president noboa has his apartment right in front of the ocean. and the securities here is really outstanding. the army is here, police is here. and of course the reason for that is that the president right now is here. and he has offered an interview to telemundo, an exclusive interview that we re having with him and we ll be able to show you what he says at 6:30 p.m., 5:30 in the central of the united states. and there are many questions to ask him of course. how is he going to solve violent crisis that his country is going through right now. is he going to have enough time do that since the next elections are going to be around 18 months. is he going to be able to really
change things in ecuador. and does he fear for his own life. we have to remember just a couple months ago, a political candidate here was murdered during the summer. so it is an important conversation with president noboa and i hope that you will join us. we always do and we always will. thank you very much for that report. and we also have breaking news about president biden s son hunter. mike memoli is joining us. what do we know? reporter: so we have breaking news as it relates to a letter that has been sent to the house oversight committee from attorneys for hunter biden. opening a potential new door for him to testify before the panel and maybe avoid that contempt issue that we know the house was proceeding with. in this new letter, abbe lowell, attorney for the son of the president, argues that the initial subpoena by which the committee sought hunter biden s