Ecuadoreans go to the polls tomorrow to choose between a banana baron and a leftist disciple of the former president Rafael Correa, whose followers are known as Correistas, in an election where violent crime and cocaine smuggling are the main issues on the minds of voters.
Cristina Bazan Guayaquil, Ecuador, Oct 10 (EFE).- Ecuador goes to the polls on Sunday in the midst of the worst security crisis in its history, a wave of violence that hides a complex puzzle of criminal gangs clashing for territorial control and, above all, drug trafficking, having established the country as a hub for global …
Inmates in Ecuador s brutal prisons took 57 guards and police officers hostage, as explosions went off outside the walls. Sky News spoke to experts about Ecuador s ferocious cocaine trade and what, if anything, can be done.