Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa said his country is “at war” with drug gangs after gunmen took over a TV studio and launched attacks. A root of this wave of violence is an increase in drug trade, with drugs mainly flowing in from Colombia.
WSJ’s Ryan Dubé explains how the gangs turned Ecuador into one of the world’s most violence-plagued nations.
0:00 Drug gangs in Ecuador
0:32 What’s happening in Ecuador?
1:39 Behind the wave of violence
2:42 What’s next?
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DRUGS
Plot twist: The people in power are empowering drug traders. Hoping not.
I am sure that MI6, CIA and the DEA along with Seals and Delta will be there assisting with the take down of the drug gangs. I look forward to reading the book about it to get the background and cause of it all. Pretty simple though, drug cartels filtering through is what has caused it.
sounds like #netflix #narcos ….. soon another season coming i guess..
that what happen when you dont have death penalty
so it's basically a international Cartel Gold Rush period.
I am Japanese, but I don't believe they are the same human. What could be the cause?
Looks like a regular day in Oakland
That happe. When the government is corrupt and do not do the job.
This is quite normal in sweden.
Sweden: I notice a competitor here, which is quite typical in this context.
Noticing a pattern here. If They're okay, we're okay. However, if they start messing with the production and trafficking of drugs. The mainstream media is not okay with them.
Legalize them. Where there is demand there will be supply. STOP THE FAKE DRUG WAR
TAKE NOTES FROM EL SALVADOR!!!!!!
Is there no capital punishment in Ecuador?
There's just too much money to be made in drugs to legalise it. It is what it is…
Legally, a Conspiracy exists when 2 or more persons join together and form an agreement to violate the law, and then act on that agreement. The crime of Conspiracy was created to address the inherent dangers posed to society when people come together and join forces to commit criminal acts.
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress
Kids aren't supposed to know how to play they're dumb that's you know kind of the whole point of being a kid so it's ok if they make mistakes but they're kids they're dumb they're still learning and will continue to learn even as an adult but why they can't be playing at such a young age is because it's playing it's not supposed to be taken that serious so if someone like a police officer asked them to stop they'd be ok with that and it's playing so if they find something serious and let's say they're too busy playing then they find something serious and they take it seriously they're going to be too busy playing so they wouldn't be that serious and that's where the idea of depression starts rolling because they can't do what they want to be doing because they're too busy playing to be taken anything serious.
It's all about comfortable footwear= world hunger
Such a rich and diverse country. I can see why the democrates want them in Red states.
Can't wait for the Netflix special
The question is how does the US benefit from this…????
I’m glad the guy said something about the Albanian cartels they have been moving weight into Europe and has changed the game
Ecuador, colombia, and Venezuela are owned by Mexico that's why there's a influx of guns down there nowadays
Ecuador went from being one of the safest countries in the world to one of the world's most violent in the world, in just the span of a few years, that is startling.
NEED THIS IN "AMERICA" DESPERATELY
Ecuador needs to play by the rules of El Salvador to deal with their crime rate
So tell me something…. the police and military only has states
That's what happens when people elect the wrong politicians. The far right is creating all this chaos while the president makes huge multinational billionaire agreements 💰💰🐁🐁💰💰🐁🐁
One word: corruption
Thanks for the coverage. I hope you cover “How Israel found itself in front of the International Criminal Justice Court” next.
The president looks too young to handle this
Insane such a beautiful place. Let’s pray for Ecuador.
Reinstate capital punishment with public x-[cute]-ions, conduct federal internet surveillance to identify illegal transactions and do routine inspections on the roads to confiscate illegal weapons
Two Words Monroe Doctrine, just as Euro powers destroyed Africa over past 200 years, the usa has destroyed North , central and South American countries, making the world safe for corporate america comes with a price of millions of lives ….
Somehow blaming drug dealers is absurd, the demand for drugs comes from the usa.
Latin America ? That ain’t no rome . Doofy 🤣😂
Nobody cares about this , the US just bombed Yemen
So, they just declare war…