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. Workers haul the bunches to an assembly line, where the bananas are washed, weighed and plastered with stickers for European…
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Ecuador s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine. The country is the world s largest exporter of bananas, shipping about 6.5 million metric
Ecuador s location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine. The country is the world s largest exporter of bananas, shipping about 6.5 million metric