The attorney general said Monday that Ecuadorian journalists at two news outlets received packages with dangerous technological devices.
Police stated the partial explosion at Ecuavisa television in Guayaquil occurred after journalist Lenin Artieda hooked the gadget into his computer. He was hurt.
Xavier Chango, the national director of forensics, stated, “It’s a military-type explosive, but extremely little capsules.”
Police detonated an explosive mailed to Guayaquil’s TC Television news section.
Chango reported two Quito media warnings.
The administration pledged to protect free speech.
“Any effort to intimidate media and freedom of speech is abhorrent and should be punished with all the severity of law,” it stated.
President Guillermo Lasso blames drug trafficking gangs’ turf wars for increased violence, even in prisons.
Ecuador transports cocaine to the US and Europe.
