Ecuador, once an oasis of peace in South America, now faces escalating drug-related violence amidst political and economic chaos.
Ecuador has become a prime transshipment point for cocaine, attracting international criminal organizations due to its strategic Pacific coast ports.
The country's homicide rate surged drastically, with 2023 projections surpassing the already alarming numbers from 2022. Political turmoil and economic challenges hinder Ecuador's capability to combat the surging violence tied to the drug trade.Cocaine-fueled violence is sweeping across the tiny South American country of Ecuador. The crisis-prone Andean country of less than 20 million, which enjoyed a massive oil boom at the start of the twenty-first century that lifted millions out of poverty, has until recently managed to avoid the bloodshed associated with narcotics trafficking.
Colombia is now producing and exporting more cocaine than ever before, even when compared to the early 1980s during the heyday of the Medellin Cartel. The United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime surged 43% year over year to a record 1,137,700 metric tons despite land under cultivation shrinking by 7% to 353,000 acres. The agency believes this caused cocaine output to hit yet another all-time high of 1,400 metric tons, which was 14% greater than the 1,228 metric tons manufactured a year earlier.
, cocaine manufacturing and the illegal armed groups engaged in narcotics trafficking, are situated close to Ecuador’s northern border. For those reasons, Colombia’s cocaine trade, as well as the strife-torn country’s civil conflict, have spilled over into neighboring Ecuador. It is believed more than a third of Colombia’s cocaine production flows into Ecuador.
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