Ecuador warns of potential assassination attempt against President Noboa but provides no evidence

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuadorian authorities warned Saturday that the Andean state is connected “high alert” aft it received quality astir an suspected effort connected President Daniel Noboa' s life.

Ecuador' s Government Ministry, providing nary grounds for its claims, wrote connected a station connected the societal web X that it was warned “about the readying of an assassination, violent attacks and ... convulsive protests.”

The ministry said it had taken information measures to neutralized the alleged threats.

The informing comes days aft Noboa won re-election, defeating leftist absorption campaigner Luisa González by a borderline of much than 1 cardinal votes, according to electoral authorities.

Noboa has gained popularity for his crackdown connected organized transgression astatine a clip that unit has soared, prompting the president to state that Ecuador is successful an “internal equipped conflict.”

The Noboa authorities claimed that those down the caller menace were “criminal structures” and “political sectors defeated astatine the polls." Noboa alluded to an alleged subject quality study circulating connected societal media which said that aft Sunday's elections, “the transportation of hired killers from Mexico and different countries to Ecuador has begun."

The Associated Press consulted the subject instauration connected the veracity of the report, to which its property bureau responded that an authoritative connection would beryllium issued successful the coming hours.

But the deficiency of grounds from Ecuador's authorities fueled disapproval from erstwhile campaigner González, who has repeatedly claimed that the predetermination effect was falsified. On Saturday, she wrote connected X that the assassination claims were simply the government's “desperation to soundlessness us” and added that “more persecution is coming.”