Ecuador security has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador -- Men walk through a lush plantation between Ecuador 's balmy Pacific coast and its majestic Andes, lopping hundreds of bunches of green bananas from groaning plants twice their height.

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