The Minister explained in an interview to the local channel Ecuavisa that they will be mega prisons because of the security equipment and not necessarily because of their size, although there will be two smaller ones.

Next week the team that will be in charge of the execution will arrive in Ecuador, the same that have already been in El Salvador and other countries, and we expect progress to respond economically to these projects, Palencia said.

In this sense, she informed that she expects to reach an agreement with the United States for 200 million dollars and also the donation of 120 million dollars from a Canadian foundation.

She also emphasized that she foresees cooperation in terms of training with the European Union and the United Kingdom.

On the progress of the implementation of the so-called Phoenix Plan, proposed in campaign by President Daniel Noboa to curb insecurity, she said that “we have an economic reality that forces us to seek international cooperation”.

The killing this week of four children shot inside their home in the town of Guasmo Sur, in the city of Guayaquil, reactivated the alarms about the increase of violent deaths in the country.

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