INSECURITY AND POLITICS, TWO SERIOUS PROBLEMS IN ECUADOR
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The scourge of organized crime and drug trafficking, combined with rampant crime and an unprecedented prison crisis, make Ecuador the country with the fastest growing homicide rate in the region, and this is a living example that reality outweighs fiction, since this serious problem goes further than all the failed attempts of the Government of Guillermo Lasso to maintain calm and security. The disturbance of the tranquility of the people has been so pronounced that the main avenue in the center of Guayaquil has seen a decrease in work activity, businesses that lament the lack of customers and the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, even remain deserted Following the outbreak of unrest, according to a government statement, Ecuador is now a gateway for international drug trafficking to the United States and Europe due to gaps in its borders with Colombia and Peru, as well as repeated clashes between gangs and seizures in the country's prisons.
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