Ecuador, that 2021 broke its record for drug seizures, it is the third country with the most seizures in the world, the interior minister said on Monday. Patrick Carrillo, with reference to the annual report United Nations.
The country “is the third country in the world to seize the most drugs: from 2021 to the current year, they amount to more than 300 tons,” Carrillo wrote on his Twitter account.
The most recent report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states that Ecuador third country with the largest cocaine seizures (6.5%), behind Colombia (41%) and USA (eleven%).
Ecuadorian authorities confiscated a mark of 210 tons of drugs in 2021, mostly cocaine. In the first half of this year, seizures exceed 100 tons.
Carrillo added that the anti-drug policy of Guillermo Lasso’s right-wing government “is producing good results.”
Ecuador: Fighting drug trafficking
Earlier at a press conference, the Minister said that Ecuadornestled between Colombia and PeruRussia, the world’s two largest producers of cocaine, “has ceased to be a transit country and is now considered an export country” of drugs.
Ecuadorwhich for years has remained relatively safe from neighbor violence is facing an increase in drug-related violence on the streets and in prisons.
The country closed last year with a homicide rate of 14 per 100,000 people, nearly double what it was in 2020.
The drug trafficker’s terrorist reports feature bodies hanging from bridges and decapitated.
Ecuadorian prisons have been the scene of a massacre that has killed more than 400 prisoners since February 2021. The government has attributed these deaths to clashes between drug-trafficking gangs that are contesting territory inside and outside the prisons, which hold about 32,600 people.
(According to AFP)
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