The lowdown on Ecuador violence

By Agence France-Presse

Aug 14, 2023 12:08 am

QUITO: Only a few years ago, Ecuador was an island of peace wedged between Colombia and Peru, the world's largest cocaine producers.

But since 2018, drug seizures and homicides have increased alarmingly, blamed widely on transnational organized crime groups.

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