First Peru, Now Ecuador: US Southern Command Escalates Its War on Drugs in South America

In 2009, Ecuadorians voted in a referendum to remove all US military presence from the country. Now, thanks to an agreement signed in the dying days of Guillermo Lasso's scandal-tarnished government, US troops are coming back. 

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