2024 in Ecuador
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Events in the year 2024 in Ecuador.
Incumbents[edit]
Events[edit]
- 9 January – 2024 conflict in Ecuador: President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa declares a state of emergency following the escape of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros drug cartel, from prison. The gangsters storm a TC Televisión newsroom in Guayaquil and launch a series of riots, kidnappings and explosions across the country.[1]
- 11 January – Researchers discovered the Upano Valley sites, a network of ancient cities that is the oldest known settlement in the Amazon.[2]
- 14 January – 2024 Ecuadorian conflict: All 178 prison employees who were held hostage in at least seven prisons are released.[3]
- 15 January – Forty-three prisoners are at large after escaping a prison in Esmeraldas.[4]
- 18 January – Public prosecutor Cesar Suarez who was investigating the gang attack on television, is killed.[5]
- 22 January – 68 gang members were arrested after they stormed a hospital in Yaguachi.[6]
- 7 February – the Supreme Court of Ecuador decriminalized euthanasia, becoming the second Latin American country to do so.[7]
- 9 February – Councilwoman Diana Carnero is killed.[8]
Scheduled events[edit]
- September 8–15 – 53rd International Eucharistic Congress at Quito[9]
Deaths[edit]
- 9 January: Diego Gallardo, 31, singer-songwriter, shot[10]
- 17 January: César Suárez, 38, prosecutor (shot during the TC Televisión newsroom takeover)[11]
- 7 February: Diana Carnero, 29, politician, shot.[12]
- 9 February: Jenny Estrada, 83, journalist, writer and historian.[13]
- 28 February: Félix Aráuz, 88, painter.[14]
Holidays[edit]
Source:[15]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 12–13 February – Carnival
- 29 March – Good Friday
- 1 May – Labour Day
- 24 May – Battle of Pichincha
- 10 August – National Day Holiday
- 9 October – Independence of Guayaquil
- 1 November – All Souls' Day
- 3 November – Independence of Cuenca
- 25 December – Christmas Day
References[edit]
- ^ "Armed men storm an Ecuador TV studio during a live broadcast as attacks in the country escalate". AP News. 2024-01-09. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
- ^ "Huge ancient lost city found in the Amazon". 2024-01-11. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador prison staff held hostage by inmates all freed". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
- ^ "Ecuador: 48 prison inmates escape, only 5 recaptured". MercoPress. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Ecuador prosecutor investigating gang attack on TV studio shot dead". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-01-18.
- ^ "Ecuador police arrest gang members who stormed hospital". 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador becomes second Latin American state to decriminalise euthanasia". 2024-02-08. Retrieved 2024-03-01.
- ^ "Ecuador arrests 6,000 people in month-long gang crackdown". Financial Times. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
- ^ "Ecuador. Inicia la preparación para el próximo Congreso Eucarístico Internacional" [Ecuador. Preparation begins for the next International Eucharistic Congress] (in Spanish). Vatican News. October 26, 2022. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- ^ Redacción (2024-01-09). "El músico Diego Gallardo falleció por una bala perdida en medio del caos de violencia en Guayaquil". www.ecuavisa.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ecuador prosecutor investigating TV studio attack shot dead in his vehicle, attorney general says - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ K.G. (2024-02-08). "A manos de sicarios murió Diana Carnero, concejal de Ecuador". www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ha muerto la periodistanJenny Estrada| La República EC" (in Spanish). 2024-02-09. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Fallece Félix Aráuz, el 'artista de las caritas', a los 88 años". El Universo (in Spanish). 2024-02-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
- ^ "Ecuador Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
External links[edit]
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