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In a 2009 diplomatic cable from the United States diplomatic cables leak in April 2011, U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges said that "corruption among Ecuadorian National Police officers is widespread and well-known" and that "U.S. investors are reluctant to risk their resources in Ecuador knowing that they could be targeted by corrupt law enforcement officials."
In 2012, Ecuador had a murder rate of 12.4 per 100,000 population. [1] There were a total of 1,924 murders in Ecuador in 2012. [1] By 2014, this had decreased to 8.23 per 100,000, with 1,309 murders recorded that year, [2] but since 2019 the number of homicides, often related to organized crime and narcotraffic operations, has risen to 14 per 100,000 in 2021 while widespread corruption ...
According to InSight Crime, the closure of the base serving the United States Armed Forces in Manta during the Rafael Correa government in 2009 was a key factor in the increase in criminal actions by armed groups since the American presence reportedly served as a deterrent so foreign gangs were expected to have increased influence in the drug business in Ecuador.
Clashes between rival criminal groups claimed the lives of 14 people over the weekend in Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, the epicenter of a bloody power struggle between narco gangs, police said ...
Ecuador’s ports are now a major exit point for South American cocaine headed to North America and Europe, the UN says. This newfound position in the international drug trade has sparked a ...
The 2010 Ecuadorian crisis took place on 30 September 2010, when National Police operatives blockaded highways, occupied the National Assembly, blocked Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito [1] and José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil, [2] and took control of the premises of Ecuador TV, in what they claimed was a strike to oppose a government-sponsored law that ...
Ecuador). [36] On 29 April 2024, Ecuador filed a separate suit in the ICJ, accusing Mexico of illegally granting asylum to Glas. [37] [38] The ICJ declined Mexico's request for provisional measures in May 2024, finding that they were not warranted by the circumstances, because Ecuador had already pledged to protect Mexican diplomatic premises. [37]
Ecuador, [a] officially the Republic of Ecuador, [b] is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Islands in the Pacific, about 1,000 kilometers (621 mi) west of the mainland.