Four Afro-Ecuadorian Boys Abducted by Soldiers in Las Malvinas

Ten soldiers detain four Black boys — Steven Medina (11), Nehemías Arboleda (15), and brothers Ismael and Josué Arroyo (15 and 14) — after a soccer game in Guayaquil's Las Malvinas neighborhood, under tight military control at the time, and force them into an army truck. The boys disappear, becoming known as the 'Guayaquil Four' and the starkest emblem of alleged military abuses under Noboa's crackdown.