2024 in Ecuador

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Events in the year 2024 in Ecuador.

Incumbents

• President:
• Daniel Noboa
• Vice President:
• Verónica Abad Rojas

Events

• 9 January – 2024 conflict in Ecuador: President Daniel Noboa declares a state of emergency following the escape of José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of the Los Choneros drug cartel, from prison. The gangsters storm a TC Televisión newsroom in Guayaquil and launch a series of riots, kidnappings and explosions across the country.^[1]
• 11 January – Researchers discover the Upano Valley sites, a network of ancient cities that is the oldest known settlement in the Amazon.^[2]
• 14 January – 2024 Ecuadorian conflict: All 178 prison employees held hostage in at least seven prisons are released.^[3]
• 15 January – Forty-three prisoners escape a prison in Esmeraldas.^[4]
• 18 January – Public prosecutor Cesar Suarez who was investigating the gang attack on TC Television, is killed.^[5]
• 22 January – 68 gang members are arrested after storming a hospital in Yaguachi.^[6]
• 7 February – The Supreme Court of Ecuador decriminalizes euthanasia, becoming the second Latin American country to do so.^[7]
• 9 February – Naranjal councilwoman Diana Carnero is killed.^[8]
• 24 March – San Vicente mayor Brigitte García, the youngest mayor in the country, and one of her advisors are found shot dead in Manabí Province.^[9]
• 31 March – Eight people are killed and at least ten others are injured by armed gangs in Guayaquil.^[10]
• 4 April – Ecuador orders the expulsion of the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur Smeke after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador makes comments deemed inappropriate on the effect of the Assassination of Fernando Villavicencio on the 2023 Ecuadorian general election.^[11]
• 5 April – Former vice president Jorge Glas is arrested by Ecuadorian police after they raid the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he had sought asylum. In response, Mexico announces that it will break off relations with Ecuador, saying that some its diplomats were injured in the raid.^[12]
• 6 April – Nicaragua suspends diplomatic relations with Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito.^[13]
• 16 April – Venezuela closes its diplomatic missions in Ecuador following the raid on the Mexican embassy.^[14]
• 21 April – Ecuadorian constitutional referendum:Ecuadorians vote in a referendum on proposed constitutional changes, with this is a victory to the current regime^[15]
• 27 April - An MI-171-E helicopter, registration AEE-485 of the Ecuadorian Army, crashed in the Tiwino sector, Pastaza Province, while covering the Shell-Tiwino-Tababoro route transporting personnel from the National Secretariat for Risk Management and Emergency (SNGRE), left 8 deads.^[16]
• 3 May - In Ecuador, A multiple crash occurred, resulting in one person dead and various injured people, recorded on Friday morning in the Machachi sector, 50 kilometers to the north of Quito, due to the collision of five vehicles.^[17]

Scheduled events

• 8–15 September – 53rd International Eucharistic Congress at Quito^[18]

Deaths

• 9 January: Diego Gallardo, 31, singer-songwriter, shot^[19]
• 17 January: César Suárez, 38, prosecutor^[20]
• 7 February: Diana Carnero, 29, politician, shot.^[21]
• 9 February: Jenny Estrada, 83, journalist, writer and historian.^[22]
• 28 February: Félix Aráuz, 88, painter.^[23]

Holidays

Source:^[24]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 12–13 February – Carnival
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 24 May – Battle of Pichincha
• 10 August – National Day Holiday
• 9 October – Independence of Guayaquil
• 1 November – All Souls' Day
• 3 November – Independence of Cuenca
• 25 December – Christmas Day

References

External links

• Online calendar

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