Faced with the growing presence of illegal armed groups on the Colombian-Ecuadorian border, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces intensified security and controls in the region to prevent these groups from crossing into Ecuadorian territory, the Ecuadorian Armed Forces’ Joint Command said via Twitter.
A little more than a month after beginning operations, Joint Task Force (JTF) Esmeraldas, tasked with combating and reducing insecurity in the Ecuadorian province of the same name, on the border with Colombia, has been showing positive results.