On cocaine trail in Ecuador ‘22
(Vice World News, produced by Miguel Fernández Flores)
“Powerful Mexican cartels have exported their drug war south and are turning Ecuador into a war zone. The Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel are locked in an entrenched battle to control Ecuador’s drug routes, fueling a 245% explosion in the country’s murder rate in just two years and driving an unprecedented number of Ecuadorians to flee to the U.S. (Emily Green reports)”
episode:https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwxyn/ecuador-mexico-drug-war-cocaine
Patrol of Rio Esmeraldas, an important route for smuggling cocaine from Columbia down to major Ecuadorian ports