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Ecuador Deploys US Drones to Combat Drug Trafficking

Summary by Sada El Balad
Ecuador has received two advanced US-made drones to help combat drug trafficking networks blamed for fueling a surge in violence across the country.

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Washington has already deployed soldiers and air and sea military ships in Ecuador, becoming one of its main allies in the fight against drug trafficking. Ecuador will be two drones to reinforce operations on the convulsive border with Colombia. "Drones Reaper: the new drug traffickers!", said the Ministry of Defense on social networks. MQ-9 Reaper, who have been employed by the United States in wars against Iran and Africa, serve as spy aircraf…

·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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Ecuador announced on Thursday that it will deploy high-powered American drones to expand its intelligence and surveillance capabilities in the fight against drug trafficking that plagues the country.

·Budapest, Hungary
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Ecuador announced that the United States had provided it with two advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones for use in border control and drug trafficking control, in the face of an upsurge in cocaine-related violence in the country.

·Syrian Arab Republic (the)
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Ecuador announced on Thursday that it will start using the lethal U.S. MQ-9 Reaper attack drones in the fight against drug trafficking on the Colombian border, the world's largest producer of cocaine. Washington has already sent soldiers and aircraft and military vessels to Ecuador, which has become one of its main allies in the fight against drug trafficking. There will be two drones with which Ecuador will strengthen operations on the tight bo…

·Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Ecuador is strengthening the fight against drug cartels with American MQ-9 Reaper drones, which will monitor, among other things, the border with Colombia. Ecuadorian authorities announced on Thursday the deployment of American unmanned aerial systems to increase intelligence gathering and surveillance capabilities, as part of the fight against drug trafficking, which has turned the Latin American country into a battleground between rival cartel…

Through a brief post on its social networks, the Ministry of National Defense of Ecuador announced that the U.S. will equip its Armed Forces with two MQ-9 Reaper drones, which will be used mainly to strengthen border surveillance and counter-narcotics operations. This is a novelty [...] The U.S. entry will equate the Armed Forces of Ecuador with MQ-9 Reaper drones to strengthen surveillance and fight with drug trafficking first appears in Milita…

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::Tolima Online:: broke the news on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
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