2024-01-10 19:24:21
After the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboadeclared the country in a state of “internal armed conflict”, a group of hooded men, armed with rifles and grenades, broke into the public television live broadcast TC in Guayaquil.
Drug violence in Ecuador: the president declared the country in a state of “internal armed conflict”
In an interview with ElDoce.tvLuis Judge, former Argentine ambassador to Ecuador, explained the reality of drug trafficking in the region. “I had to be ambassador in Ecuador and there it was very easy to perceive the level of deterioration that they had acquired from the romanization of drug trafficking mixed with the ideological issue,” he indicated.
The now deputy commented that during the first years of Rafael Correa’s government (2007-2017), it was rumored that a large part of the leadership of the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) had moved their families to live in Ecuador, where they took the port of Guayaquil to carry out their business and operations.
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“There was no ignorance of the policy that this was happening. Today there is no prison in Ecuador that drug traffickers do not run,” said Judge.
The current panorama in Ecuador “is the product of many years of romanticization of drug trafficking cartels and everything that entails,” he added.
This reality, for the reference, It is not far from Argentina or the province of Córdoba. “The level of drug organization that exists in Córdoba and in many urban districts of Córdoba is not very different from what I had to witness and make visible in Ecuador,” concluded Luis Juéz.
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