Danger at every corner: How Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil became unliveable • FRANCE 24 English

[@QueenetBowie]

It’s really tragic, several years ago it was a relatively very safe and stable country

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

Before H came and started to ruin the country.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

@@QueenetBowie Yes, it was.

[@oswaldC2243]

They’re ( inmates) not in jail for being good law abiding citizens, let’s face it they’re in jail for crimes against their victims. Long live Ecuador 🇪🇨!

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

Only thing is, knowing the police and military over there, they probably jailed innocent people along with the real criminals.

[@ecuaAlgerie]

Am Algerian a live 8 years en guayaquil Ecuador its very nice and no problem.. Its pacific People

[@lcash-ub7hc]

en français!

[@MaNiChOxX]

I’ve been living here. No issues at all, never been robbed.

[@shawnanderson6313]

100 Safe, All LIES! Ecuador is like safest place on Earth! /s

[@RKO1988]

No videos nothing

[@kurrwa]

I love these ignorant comments, I was in Guayaquil too even I walked at night but it's not safe at all.

[@nicklasprince]

I used to go to Guayaquil frequently and lived in Ecuador for a few months 10 years ago, it was super safe and and a very safe country in general. Sad to see how it has become.

[@et781]

Humanity has lost its mind. I lived in Guayaquil in 1980-81 and sure there were rough areas, but never like this. My friend and I hitched to Salinas. We were young college girls with no worries. Now, that would be suicide

[@DionisioLavara]

Drug drug drugs is the root of all of this chaos.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@Tiny1Der]

I was just there in June. They are currently living as normal. No issues at all. The president ran all them out. He is an Ecuadorian born in Florida so he definitely was with the ish.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

Oh, really? That's news to me. Ask people living there to confirm your opinion. Noboa is another do-nothing Ecuadorian president just like Lasso and Moreno and the presidents of the 80s and 90s.

[@nl9002]

I visited here when they took over the news. Didn’t ever feel unsafe.

[@jmudikun]

Magical Realism

[@daviddelatiare1653]

NO PROBLEMO, STORM IN Bukele, he is gonna handle that in 6 months max.

[@Dieggsbruh]

As amazing a job as Bukele did El Salvador is a tiny country and he was not going up against multiple international cartels. People keep comparing Ecuador with El Salvador but Bukele was not fighting off Mexican Cartels that make Billions of dollars and even have US intelligence on their payroll. This is a MUCH bigger challenge IMO

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

A lot of foreigners from Venezuela and Colombia have helped create this situation. Ecuador had enough problems before them coming. This is why it's sometimes smart to restrict immigration, especially if your economy is not strong enough and your own people are unemployed. The native people should come first. These open borders people aren't from Ecuador.

[@Tiny1Der]

I can agree to this. I been going twice a year since 2020 and it's only getting worse since they started immigrating in mass in the last 3 years.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

@@Tiny1Der The drug problem has also gotten worse but that started before the mass migration. Thanks for your input. I hope you enjoy going there.

[@Tiny1Der]

@@CautionHighWavesAhead- I have noticed that as well. June was my first time actually seeing a man snort in the open..... can I say that word here?

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

@@Tiny1Der Yeah, you can. I saw some young guys snorting in a KFC bathroom by where that park is close to 6 de Marzo St in Guayaquil. That was in 2016 when I also saw rows of teenagers sleeping on the sidewalks - all drug addicts addicted to "H." Later on in 2021 I didn't see them anymore.

[@SuzanaMantovaniCerqueira]

😢

[@kitcarpo4745]

Better than him coming here.

[@12HappyDonuts]

They’re here already.

[@hollywoodnoire]

Ecuador has become Gaza

[@ArielLopez-ql5mk]

La han convertido, los delincuentes que se han trasladado a operar en la Ciudad

[@Tiny1Der]

No it hasn't. This is exaggerated by using single incidents. I was just there walking around by myself at night (10/10 still not recommended)and all just in June. I even brought someone back on a visa.

[@Tiny1Der]

This video is so exaggerated by singling out on a few incidents and making them big. Not that they are not. But as a person who was just there for an entire month with absolutely no issue except someone getting shot at the market when i was omw (still went).

[@GrausigGrausig]

I’ve lived in Guayaquil my whole life. Its not an exaggeration.

[@kurrwa]

guayaquil is one of the deadliest cities in the world, but you are talking about exaggerating. I love these insane comments xD

[@Tiny1Der]

I said the video. Not the crime......I'm from Baltimore MD so I'm not stranger to crime and they are very comparable cities imo in terms of crime. The only difference is the type or way a crime is carried out. I'd say the same for a lot of Baltimore videos as well only because they ONLY single out one or two things and make that the entire story of the city. The only danger AT EVERY CORNER in both cities are ppl smoking drugs and asking you for money. In Baltimore, everybody got a gun. In Guayaquil, everybody will rob you.