torture, extrajudicial killings

of emergency, despite their failure thus far to curb the country’s historic levels of violence, with 2025 now on track to surpass 2023’s all-time record homicide rate. These policies have also led to security forces being widely accused of human rights abuses, including torture, extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and arbitrary detentions. In fact, on April 28, four of the 16 soldiers involved in the December forced disappearance of four Afro-Ecuadorian children — who were later found dead — confessed to torturing the boys. According to their statements, the children were beaten, stomped on, thrown head-first to the ground from a truck, forced to take off their clothes, and had a gun fired next to them as a form of intimidation. สล็อต เว็บตรง