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Ecuador Launches Joint Anti-Drug Operations with U.S.
U.S. and Ecuadorian forces launched joint operations against narco-terrorist groups, resulting in arrests and six tons of cocaine seized, targeting key drug transit points.
- On Monday, Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa announced the launch of joint operations with the United States and regional allies to fight drug trafficking in a 'new phase'.
- Ecuador's role as a transit hub helps explain the surge in violence, with around 70 percent of drugs from Colombia and Peru moving through the country and fueling deadly turf wars.
- Officials said meetings in Quito involved senior US military leaders Francis Donovan, US Southern Command chief, and Mark Schafer, head of US Special Operations, while the United States deployed Air Force personnel to the former Manta base in December.
- Noboa announced a curfew from March 15 to 30 in Guayas, Los Rios, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas and El Oro, while Interior Minister John Reimberg urged residents to 'Stay home.'
- The moves position Ecuador within broader regional security efforts, as the joint operations aim to disrupt about 70 percent of regional cocaine routes, amid political sensitivity after a November referendum on foreign bases.
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US opens military action in Ecuador against ‘terrorist organizations’
WASHINGTON — The United States and Ecuador have launched joint military operations against “designated terrorist organizations” in the South American country, the Pentagon said Tuesday night, in what appeared to be a major expansion of the U.S. military’s unilateral strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific that the Trump administration has accused of carrying drugs.
US And Ecuadorian Forces Launch Joint Strikes On Narco-Terror Targets
by Jack Cowhick at CDN - American and Ecuadorian military forces launched joint strikes against narco-terror targets in Ecuador on Tuesday, U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced. The joint operations target Designated Terrorist Organizations within the country, the U.S. announced in a press release. SOUTHCOM described the operations as a “powerful example of the commitment of partners in Latin America and the … Click to read the rest HERE->…
The security situation in Ecuador has recently deteriorated dramatically. In the fight against the drug gangs, the South American country has now received aid from the US. In parallel, investigators have struck in Europe.
With a half-minute video posted on social network X, the U.S. Southern Command promoted the initiation of joint operations with Ecuadorian military forces against criminal groups classified as terrorists by the State Department and to which Quito attributes the increase in criminality in the South American country. However, it is unclear whether the agreement includes the deployment of U.S. troops and military equipment, or what kind of results …
US launches complex anti-narcotics operation in Ecuador
The United States and Ecuador launched a joint anti-narcotics operation against “Designated Terrorist Organizations,” U.S. Southern Command announced in a post on X. On Tuesday night, U.S. Southern Command released a statement saying the operations were a powerful example of the commitment of partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the scourge of narco-terrorism,” according to Axios. Officials said the U.S. did not provide ground t…
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