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Amazon Prison director dies in armed assault
The director of a prison in the Amazon region of Ecuador was killed in a shooting attack on Tuesday, and two prison officials were injured, according to the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Prisons (SNAI).
“At kilometer 3 on the Coca road, three administrative staff members from the Sucumbíos Nº1 Correctional Facility were victims of an armed attack,” the agency reported via its WhatsApp channel.
It was reported that Álex Guevara, the director of Sucumbíos Nº1 prison, “tragically died as a result of the attack.” The other two staff members accompanying him were injured.
Local media released a photo of the vehicle used by the officials, showing multiple bullet holes in the windshield.
SNAI noted that the police are investigating the crime.
Last week, two prison guards were killed while on their way to work at a prison in Guayaquil (southwest), one of Ecuador’s most violent cities due to criminal gangs fighting over drug trafficking routes.
In 2023, Ecuador recorded a record 47 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to a rate of 6 per 100,000 in 2018.
President Daniel Noboa’s administration claims that its crackdown on organized crime has led to a reduction in homicides. From January to September this year, there have been 4,236 reported murders, compared to 5,112 in the same period in 2023, according to the Ministry of the Interior.
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Husband of the deceased after eating at a Disney store rejects arbitration requested by the company because he had joined Disney+
The family of a woman who died in 2023 due to an allergic reaction after eating at a Disney restaurant in Florida, USA, rejected on Thursday a request from the company to dismiss the lawsuit, based on an agreement that favors arbitration in case of conflicts and that was contained in documents when her husband accessed the Disney+ streaming service in 2019.
Kanokporn Tangsuan, a doctor at a New York hospital, died in October 2023 due to a severe allergic reaction to nuts and dairy products after eating at a restaurant at the Disney Spring shopping center in Orlando.
Tangsuan had gone to dinner with his husband Jeffrey Piccolo, and his mother, on the night of October 5 at the Raglan Road Irish Pub restaurant, as described in the lawsuit filed in the Ninth Circuit Court of Orange County (Florida).
According to the complaint, which alleges death by negligence against Disney, the woman had asked in the restaurant several times about the ingredients of the dinner warning about her allergies.
The doctor succumbed without being able to breathe after several minutes of eating and died in a hospital center due to “anaphylaxis due to the high levels of dairy and nuts in her system,” says the lawsuit about the results of the autopsy.
Her husband sued Disney for damages and requested a jury trial.
However, according to the entertainment company, the case should continue through arbitration, out of court, alluding to Piccolo’s Disney+ account and to avoid the high costs of the trial.
Disney bases its defense on the fact that Piccolo accepted a similar language of arbitrating “all disputes” against The Walt Disney Company or its affiliates not only when accessing Disney+, but also when he bought tickets for the park online in September 2023.
“There is simply no reading of the Disney+ Subscriber Agreement that supports the notion that Mr. Piccolo agreed to arbitrate claims that arose from injuries suffered by his wife in a restaurant located in facilities owned by a Disney theme park or resort and that finally led to her death,” the family’s defense detailed, according to the NPR channel.
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Nicolás Maduro threatens to transfer oil and gas blocks to BRICS allies if U.S. makes a critical mistake
Nicolás Maduro has threatened the United States and “its associates around the world” with handing over the oil and gas blocks operating in the Caribbean country to his allies in the BRICS group of emerging economies if the authorities of the North American nation “make the mistake of their lives.”
“If those people up north and their associates around the world make the mistake of their lives, then those oil and gas blocks that were already signed will go to our BRICS allies,” Maduro said.
Nicolás Maduro has threatened the United States and “its associates around the world” with handing over the oil and gas blocks operating in the Caribbean country to his allies in the BRICS group of emerging economies if the authorities of the North American nation “make the mistake of their lives.”
“If those people up north and their associates around the world make the mistake of their lives, then those oil and gas blocks that were already signed will go to our BRICS allies,” Maduro said.
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Petro denounces missing more than one million projectiles and ammunition from military bases
The Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, denounced on Tuesday that two inspections made at two military bases in the country found that more than one million projectiles and ammunition are missing, including missiles, and assured that these materials may be in the hands of international arms trafficking networks or illegal armed groups.
“The only way to explain this type of missing is that there have been for a long time networks made up of people from the Military and Civil Forces dedicated to a mass trade in weapons using the legal weapons of the Colombian State,” the president said in a statement at the Casa de Nariño.
Petro explained that the inspections carried out in the Fort of Tolemaida, located in the central department of Tolima, and at the base of the 10th Brigade of the Army, in the north of the country.
In Tolemaida, according to the president, “746 calibre 81-millimeter grenades are needed; 3,712 M-26 hand grenades; 2,880 40-millimeter grenades; 1,590 60-millimeter grenades; 797 40-millimeter grenades slaboned; 8,203 7.62 caliber ammunition; 41,745 5.56 caliber ammunition; 131,577 7.62-mped-caliber ammunition and 626,614 5.56-caliber ammunition”.
While at the base of Brigade 10 they did not find “two Spike missiles; 37 Nimrod missiles (both Israeli-made); 550 RPG rockets; 22 155-millimeter grenades; 621 106-millimeter grenades; 1,077 105-millimeter grenades for howitzer grenades; 1,077 90-millimeter caliber grenades; 960 81-millimeter-caliber grenades,” and “1,218 60-millimeter grenades.”
Also missing in the tanks are “4,171 40-millimeter caliber grenades; 24 40-millimeter L70HE caliber cartridges; 1,494 40-millimeter sloon grenades; 3,694 M-26 hand grenades; 17,456 anti-tank charges; 22,293 anti-tank loads .50 TAP; 330,419 7.62 Slap caliber ammunition; 9,829 162 caliber ammunition; 761,551 5.56 ammunition; 5,992 caliber 5.56 Slap and 1,262 special caliber .38 ammunition.
“As you can see, only among 5.56 ammunition there are more than a million lost ammunition,” added the president, who was accompanied in the statement by the Minister of Defense, Iván Velásquez, and by the commander of the military forces, General Helder Giraldo Bonilla.
The president explained that the networks that allegedly stole their weapons were sold “to armed groups in Colombia” or possibly provide “foreign conflicts, the closest to Haiti.”
This is because that country is “hours away by speedboat” from the base of Brigade 10, located in the Colombian Caribbean region.
Petro also lamented that “with these same ammunition they end up injuring and killing the same members of the Military Forces” and warned that they will continue to carry out this type of inspections in other bases in the country.
“This type of gang must be dismantled,” concluded the head of state.
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