Criticism mounts of Ecuador president’s war-like strategy against drug traffickers • FRANCE 24
In the space of just a few years, drug trafficking and insecurity have exploded in Ecuador, with homicides rising by 800 percent between 2018 and 2023. President Daniel Noboa, who has been in power for the past year, has launched an armed campaign against the criminal groups. This war-like strategy is criticised by human rights groups, who oppose the authorities’ focus on security and are warning that extrajudicial killings may have taken place. Our team reports from Guayaquil, the epicentre of the violence due to its port becoming a strategic location for drug traffickers.
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27 comments
This is called "State of Emergency where human rights are partially suspended (almost all the ICCPR is on pause button), great to solve widespread crime at first, degenerate pretty fast in nightmare after (arbitrary arrest, non equitable trials and lengthy preventive detention without trials become the norm).
Good luck.
No one gonna point out the guy in the thumbnail holding a handgun like a rifle? Lol bro is trying to copy his friend next to him
Of course people are complaining that criminals are getting locked up🤦♂️💀😂🤣it’s definitely democrats
Well done equador!!!
Ecuador use to be a wonderful place to vacation each year i would spend a month there. These days i wouldnt even think of going to Ecuador 😢
Just like El Salvador 🇸🇻 President Nayib Bukele is doing great. President Daniel Noboa is doing incredible for Ecuador 🇪🇨 👏🏿
Biden will be here soon to save them drug heads
Only people who don't have to live with the problem are the ones criticizing these tactics. They are the kind of people that can afford private security but want to defend the police and take away your guns
No one is criticizing him it’s just the leftist media that’s upset.
Its working in El Salvador.
The way the police and military move is sloppy and untrained sadly
Is not that the police don’t do enough or the military, is the congress who don’t want to approve the change on laws to punish this criminals. And they don’t changed because cartels pay them so crime can continue .
Go Al Salvador on those criminals
It’s hard to argue when El Salvador’s results have been so dramatic
Good Job Ecuador Journalist need to Quit Whining
Criticism??? What about human rights of the citizens victimized by these criminals ?
No wonder france has become an absolute garbage dump.
Whose criticism????????? Perhaps from international bureaucrats sitting at their desks in Brussels, Paris, NY, with no connection at all to Ecuador, whatsoever. Ecuadorians, the vast majority, are begging for even more radical measures against criminal and drug cartels. Actually, Noboa has come up short of the necessary goals to even begin to get rid of such devastating scourge.
Criticism from human rights groups does not mean much. I don’t see the actual people of Ecuador rioting against these policies.
France learn from them not criticize them
Should be more like Mexico with hugs??? 😂
Ecuadorians i know said that the country is lost to the cartels gangs
Nah, you wanna be a violent gang member and act tough?.. then you should face the dangerous side of an M-16.
Ecuador needs to create more police technology
Criticized by the locals? or criticized by campaigners who live outside the country? Same campaigners who refer to rape gangs as "grooming" in the UK?
Just wondered if ALL these people are guilty?
Ecuador needs to keep up the good work, been here in Ecuador for 2 1/2 weeks and was told not to be out after dark 4 blocks from the national palace, There ase some areas that are safe but they are away from the cartel stuff. I seem to remember a quote from colon Powell that went something like going to war without France is like going deer hunting and forgetting to take your accordion..
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