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Since around 2018, [1] Ecuador has suffered a security crisis resulting from conflicts between criminal organizations with connections to drug trafficking. [2]In recent years, coca leaf production has risen in neighboring Colombia [1] and Peru, [3] with both cocaine and coca base entering Ecuador by land and leaving by sea. [1]
[84] The Minister for Security, Patricia Bullrich, announced that the government would offer armed assistance to Ecuador, stating that drug trafficking was a "continental issue". [85] On 19 January, Bullrich announced that Macias’ wife and children had been detained in Córdoba Province and repatriated to Ecuador. [86]
Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an unprecedented security crisis in the country. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ...
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis became latent with the entry of illegal weapons from Peru, one of the main sources of arms to armed gangs in Ecuador. Earlier in 2019, a prison crisis broke out in Guayaquil [ es ] due to the city's prisons becoming important links of communication and confrontations between the armed groups.
Ecuador’s worsening security situation deteriorated further in spectacular fashion this week, with criminal groups seizing symbolic locations including a TV station and a university in a show of ...
Mark Feierstein, senior advisor with the Latin America program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said the crisis in Ecuador requires “a significant response.” Feierstein was senior director for ...
On 9 August 2023, eleven days before the 2023 Ecuadorian general election, presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was assassinated after leaving a campaign rally in Quito, the capital of Ecuador. One assailant was killed during the attack. Several bystanders, including security personnel and a legislative candidate, were injured. [11]
Torres is hypervigilant because Ecuador is increasingly at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine. Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry ...