{"id":2331,"date":"2004-04-20T19:37:49","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T23:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/04\/20\/burning-man-for-real\/"},"modified":"2004-04-20T19:37:49","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T23:37:49","slug":"burning-man-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/04\/20\/burning-man-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Man, For Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As reported in
\n this space<\/a>, Ecuador, like many third world countries
\n experiencing vast and visible chasms between the lifestyles of their
\n richest and poorest
\n citizens, is experiencing a dramatic increase in street crime, robberies
\n and assaults. With often inadequate and underpaid police protection
\n endemic, in many cases citizens take matters into their own hands,
\n both in terms of prevention of and response to crime.<\/p>\n

The following story is from the Ecuadorian city of Esmereldas, on the
\n northern coast, near the border with Colombia. Esmereldas is know for its
\n emerald mines, beautiful beaches, African-American population and Caribbean
\n culture.<\/p>\n

The incident started out as one of the innumerable petty crimes perpetrated
\n on the hard-working populace every day; a gang of 5 small-time hoodlums
\n tried to shake down a provincial bus carrying people back from the capital-
\n but then things went horribly wrong. A 62-year old ex-policeman pulled
\n out
\n a gun
\n and,
\n in an act of foolhardy bravery, took on the 4
\n delinquents in the middle of the crowded bus.  In the ensuing gunfight
\n a 30-year-old school teacher was killed and one of the robbers, cornered
\n by the enraged passengers, was doused in gasoline and burned alive.<\/p>\n

\n

Bus Passengers Burn an Alleged Assailant<\/strong><\/p>\n

The passengers of a city bus yesterday burned alive an assailant who
\n allegedly, together with 4 other suspects, assaulted the bus and shot
\n a schoolteacher, who later died, and a retired policeman who were passengers
\n on the bus.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at 1:30 in the afternoon, in the area of El
\n Mirador ( The Lookout), while the vehicle was on its route from Quito
\n to Esmeraldas.<\/p>\n

Manuel Guachamin, a rural schoolteacher who was a passenger on the
\n bus, said the attackers got up from their seats, shot their guns into
\n the
\n roof of the bus, and after threats seized all of the valuable from the
\n other passengers.<\/p>\n

He also said that one of the robber shot a retired policeman, Gerimias
\n Ortiz Carabali, 65, and then killed a school teacher, Jeaneth Orozco Canezas,
\n 30, who was returning to her house in Esmeraldas after teaching classes
\n in the Saint Elvira School.<\/p>\n

Guachamin reported that the ex-policeman pulled out his own gun and
\n confronted the robbers, managing to wound at least four of them, at which
\n point they decided to flee the scene.<\/p>\n

He added that the enraged passengers, about 30 people, raced after
\n the thieves and managed to catch one of them.  This suspect was surrounded
\n by the passengers and residents of the zone, doused in gasoline, and burned
\n alive in the middle of the highway. The police arrived approximately half
\n an hour later. They sent the wounded to hospitals in Esmeraldas
\n and Quininde and organized a search for the escaped suspects, without
\n success.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

from El Universo (daily paper in Guayaquil, Ecuador). <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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