LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

LATIN AMERICA ADVISOR

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January 26, 2024

How Coordinated Are Andean Nations in Fighting Crime?

A surge in drug fueled violence in Ecuador has led to heightened states of alert in neighboring Andean nations. A Peruvian soldier is pictured last year with seized drugs. // File Photo: Peruvian Government.

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Andrés Martínez-Fernández, senior policy analyst for Latin America at The Heritage Foundation: “The roots of Ecuador’s insecurity crisis reach well beyond the South American nation’s borders. Certainly, President Rafael Correa’s moves to undermine Ecuador’s military and shut down a key U.S. counter-narcotics base have facilitated the rise of narco-violence. However, it’s no coincidence that Ecuador’s security crisis comes as regional coca production booms and transnational criminal organizations gain strength across Latin America. The slow collapse of the counterdrug consensus across Latin America has created the conditions for Ecuador’s current ‘internal armed conflict.’ In Colombia, the Petro administration has blunted counternarcotics operations against the country’s criminal organizations and…”

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