Posted on 01/13/2024 1:12:25 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
From 5 p.m. on Tuesday to 8 a.m. on Wednesday, Quito, the capital of Ecuador, was deserted. As the sun began to rise, little by little the noise of cars, people passing by and a few open businesses began to ring out. The people who left their homes to go work repeated the same word: “fear.” After several days of escalating violence due to attacks by organized criminal groups, including the live kidnapping of journalists from the TC Televisión channel in Guayaquil, citizens were trying to resume their everyday activities amid strong feelings of uncertainty.
“I was panicking for my 23-year-old son,” said Luz, the owner of a grocery store, as she unloaded several buckets of eggs from her car. She was starting her day at 6 a.m. as usual, after having lost all her Tuesday sales. “We couldn’t sell, all the people started to go home in fear, they were evacuating the nearby shopping center and we didn’t know if it was a bomb or what was happening.”
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Bingo
We’re about 5 years or less away from this in the USA.
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