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Ecuador fishermen increasingly fall prey to drug gangs
AFP|Update: 14.05.2023 07:14
Ecuadoran naval police check the documents of the crew of a small boat intercepted near the port of Guayaquil on May 11, 2023 / © AFP/File
"Captain, bring your boat closer," shouts an Ecuadoran naval officer aboard a launch patrolling the Gulf of Guayaquil on a route traffickers use to ferry drugs to the high seas.
Guayaquil, on Ecuador's southern Pacific coast, has become a strategic point for the shipment of hundreds of tons of drugs, mostly cocaine, to the US or Europe.
Since the rightist government of Guillermo Lasso came to power in 2021, Ecuador has seized some 500 tons of drugs.
"This is a routine inspection," the naval officer shouts, as his rifle-bearing colleagues check the crew's documents and crates on the small boat.
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