Why Ecuador's Copy of El Salvador's Crime Crackdown Is Failing
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Why Ecuador's Copy of El Salvador's Crime Crackdown Is Failing
Defense · Security —The borrowed plan. Ecuador’s president openly copied El Salvador’s hard-line crackdown on gangs. —The tools. He sent the army into the streets and prisons and pledged mega-jails on the Salvadoran template. —The result. More than two years on, killings keep rising and prison massacres continue. —The reason. Ecuador’s gangs are drug-trafficking networks, […] The post Why Ecuador’s Copy of El Salvador’s Crime Crackdown Is Failin…
Ecuador has become the South American scenario that best illustrates the limits and dangers of applying an imported formula to deal with the growing violence. What in El Salvador of Nayib Bukele is sold as a miracle of hard hand, in the Ecuadorian Pacific shipwrecked in the middle of an unprecedented bloodbath. Security in Ecuadorian territory seems not to be contained with recipes designed for neighborhood gangs.Continue reading
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