{"id":52196,"date":"2025-10-17T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-killed-while-walking-his-kids-to-school-soccer-player-shot-and-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T12:45:15","slug":"judge-killed-while-walking-his-kids-to-school-soccer-player-shot-and-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judge-killed-while-walking-his-kids-to-school-soccer-player-shot-and-wounded-in-ecuador-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge killed while walking his kids to school, soccer player shot and wounded in Ecuador attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>An Ecuadoran judge was killed Thursday while walking his children to school, and a professional soccer player was shot and wounded in the latest attacks attributed to criminal gang activity in the South American country.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a gunman on a motorbike opened fire on judge Marcos Mendoza in the coastal town of Montecristi in Ecuador&#8217;s Manabi province, plagued by drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Provincial police chief Colonel Giovanni Naranjo told reporters the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-arrests-los-lobos-leader-targeted-by-us\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Los Lobos<\/a><\/span> gang \u2014 designated a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/rubio-us-designating-ecuador-gangs-foreign-terrorist-groups\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">foreign terrorist organization<\/a><\/span> by the United States \u2014 was suspected of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>At least 15 judges or prosecutors have been killed in Ecuador since 2022, according to Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n<p>The Ecuadoran Judges&#8217; Association said Mendoza&#8217;s &#8220;shocking&#8221; murder shined a light on the &#8220;vulnerability&#8221; of the country&#8217;s judges, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP38t6oDc92\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">writing on social media<\/a>: &#8220;Without judicial security, no justice is possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They &#8220;face pressure, threats, and risks every day for carrying out their duties with independence and courage,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Also Thursday, Ecuadoran soccer player Bryan &#8220;Cuco&#8221; Angulo, who has played for several Latin American clubs and for his country, was shot in the foot when attending a training session.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two assailants were arrested, while Angulo&#8217;s club, Liga de Portoviejo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LDUPoficial\/posts\/pfbid0Tph6g4GWDHTnxBJ6RWUgLViwJTAD1ojUS8enqi684zv9bjvKvHQKxeS6Pca4frCHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a social media post<\/a> that several of its players &#8220;have received threats&#8221; ahead of a match against rivals Buhos ULRV on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Playing football in Ecuador can be deadly, with match-fixing mafias part of a global criminal empire that earns gangs some $1.7 trillion per year, according to a recent UN estimate.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say gangs target second-division teams in Ecuador, where players are more susceptible due to their comparatively lower salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, police arrested a woman at one of Angulo&#8217;s homes and found a surveillance system there that had allegedly been used by criminal gangs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not rule out that the attack is related,&#8221; Manabi police chief Giovanni Naranjo said.<\/p>\n<p>Ecuador, once considered one of Latin America&#8217;s safest nations, has seen a dramatic surge in violence in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Strategically located between Colombia and Peru, two of the world&#8217;s largest cocaine producers, it has become a major transit hub for narcotics.<\/p>\n<p>President Daniel Noboa has deployed troops to combat the violence &#8212; to little effect.<\/p>\n<p>In the first half of this year, homicides in Ecuador increased by 47 percent compared to the same period in 2024, according to the national Observatory of Organized Crime.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, authorities in Ecuador reported two attacks that left <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ecuador-attacks-14-killed-victims-signs-of-torture\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">14 people dead<\/a><\/span> and 17 wounded, with some of the victims showing signs of torture. <\/p>\n<p>Also this week, two explosions rocked different parts of Ecuador, less than 24 hours after a vehicle exploded in a port city in the South American country and left one person dead. <\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister John Reimberg accused the Los Lobos gang and dissidents of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a now-defunct Colombian guerrilla movement with ties to the gang, of being behind the blasts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/17\/fc179bfa-6163-4c94-80aa-1a4d5e7b28be\/thumbnail\/620x413\/70c23b2a58d3d96158907a6c1b3153ab\/2025-10-15t170151z-1776883273-rc23chaxon23-rtrmadp-3-ecuador-violence.jpg#\" alt=\"FILE PHOTO: Vehicle explodes outside mall, in Guayaquil \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/17\/fc179bfa-6163-4c94-80aa-1a4d5e7b28be\/thumbnail\/620x413\/70c23b2a58d3d96158907a6c1b3153ab\/2025-10-15t170151z-1776883273-rc23chaxon23-rtrmadp-3-ecuador-violence.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/10\/17\/fc179bfa-6163-4c94-80aa-1a4d5e7b28be\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/13e286799bdad458a9bb8cc1d89df416\/2025-10-15t170151z-1776883273-rc23chaxon23-rtrmadp-3-ecuador-violence.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Police officers stand guard at the site where a vehicle exploded outside a shopping mall, as a second vehicle containing explosives was found nearby, but did not detonate and was immediately neutralized, according to Ecuador&#8217;s Interior Minister John Reimberg, in Guayaquil, Ecuador October 14, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Vicente Gaibor Del Pino \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Criminal\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pool-hall-mass-shooting-ecuador-deaths-latest-massacre\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">gang violence<\/a><\/span>\u00a0continues unabated following the recapture in June of the country&#8217;s biggest drug lord,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jose-adolfo-macias-fito-recaptured-ecuador\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Adolfo Mac\u00edas<\/a><\/span> after his escape from a maximum-security prison in 2024. 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