Rubio visits Ecuador as Trump-friendly leader helps the US counterdrug push in the region
- State Marco Rubio visits Ecuador on Wednesday to meet Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and strengthen security cooperation against drug trafficking under President Donald Trump's administration.
- Rubio aims to align regional leaders across South America with U.S. interests in the Western Hemisphere, emphasizing shared counternarcotics efforts and economic engagement with conservative partners.
- Coinciding with the visit, U.S. forces intercepted and sank a vessel on Tuesday linked to Los Choneros, marking the second in as many days of such operations.
- Unlike previous lethal strikes, authorities removed personnel from the vessel and transferred them to Ecuadorian custody; earlier operations killed at least 227 people accused by Washington of being "narcoterrorists" without evidence.
- From Quito, Rubio continues to Peru to meet Peruvian President Keiko Fujimori, following Tuesday meetings in Colombia with President Abelardo that highlighted resurgent U.S. security cooperation.
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Among other questions, the signatories denounce that Rubio is responsible for dozens of coercive measures against sovereign governments and that his coercive diplomacy led Ecuador to freeze relations with Cuba for no valid reason.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave new clarity Wednesday on the U.S. approach toward combating drug trafficking in Latin American waters, saying the Trump administration is now focused on working with allied countries and aligning with their laws but insisting that the military will "still blow up ships if need be."
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