WHEN Europe’s busiest port recently announced the discovery of nearly nine tonnes of cocaine hidden in a shipment of bananas – its biggest-ever seizure of illegal narcotics – it included a detail that was no longer surprising. The shipment had come not from Colombia or Peru, Latin America’s largest cocaine producers, but from Ecuador, the small nation sandwiched between them.
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