00:00Homicide rates among children and adolescents in Ecuador increased to 87%,
00:05exceeding the criminal rates of nations such as Haiti, Colombia and Honduras and also Brazil.
00:12In an interview to multi-platform Telesur researcher and activist Maria Fernanda Andrade said
00:17that violence in Ecuador reached a critical point in January 2026
00:23with the murder of 50 children between 12 and 17 years old.
00:27Andrade pointed out that this escalation is part of an unprecedented social crisis
00:32that has been unfolding since 2018 with the deterioration of social policies and human rights
00:39which resulted in 2025 being the most violent year in the country's history with 9,216 murders.
00:48Ecuador, she said, has six of the ten most violent cities in the world.
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