PNP receives 12,000 more tear gas grenades from Ecuador to face protests (La República [Spanish] - 1/29/2023)
PNP receives 12,000 more tear gas grenades from Ecuador to face protests (Spanish ) When the government of Lenin Moreno faced popular rejection of the economic measures it enacted, the Ecuadorian police borrowed riot gear from the Peruvian National Police (PNP). María Elena Hidalgo The PNP has asked its counterpart in Ecuador for the return of a batch of 12,000 tear gas grenades, which it received on loan to respond to the wave of protests that broke out after former President Lenin Moreno launched a package of economic measures, on 19 May 2020. The request follows news that the PNP had used nine tons of tear gas bombs on its citizens in 10 days of social protests . According to the weekly Hildebrandt en sus Trece , a previous shipment of 28,960 tear gas cartridges was purchased from Cóndor Industria Químic at a cost of $498,000 and arrived on board a L 100-20 Hercules plane on January 14, 2023. Given shortages due to the repression of successive protests aga...