Created: 11.07.2026 00:15 Updated: 11.07.2026 00:15 Organized crime in Ecuador emerged in the mid-1980s. However, the most recent Amazon Underworld report, produced together with Amazon Watch, shows that its first vestiges in the Amazon also date back to that decade. The triple border between Ecuador, Colombia and Peru concentrates mining and oil exploration projects that have turned the region into a gold mine, literal and symbolic, for crimi…
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Created: 11.07.2026 00:15 Updated: 11.07.2026 00:15 Organized crime in Ecuador emerged in the mid-1980s. However, the most recent Amazon Underworld report, produced together with Amazon Watch, shows that its first vestiges in the Amazon also date back to that decade. The triple border between Ecuador, Colombia and Peru concentrates mining and oil exploration projects that have turned the region into a gold mine, literal and symbolic, for crimi…