“Gone are the days when Ecuadorian territory was handed over to drug traffickers. They took advantage of the lack of radars,” Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso said on Wednesday.
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Ecuador is considering exceptional measures to fight crime and drug trafficking. “Soon we will present to the National Assembly a law that will allow the shooting down of unauthorized aircraft that do not obey the orders of the Ecuadorian air force”, said the pEcuadorian resident, Guillermo Lasso, Wednesday October 27 during a military ceremony. Located between Colombia and Peru, the world’s two largest cocaine producers, the country is a popular base for drug traffickers.
“Gone are the days when Ecuadorian territory was handed over to drug traffickers. They took advantage of the lack of radars”, added the conservative leader. He announced the entry into operation, in the coming weeks, of two new radars which will cover 100% of the territory.
The fight against drug trafficking is a priority for the Ecuadorian executive. Guillermo Lasso declared on October 18 a state of emergency throughout the country, plagued by a wave of violence linked to drug trafficking and massacres in prisons that have killed more than 2,000 since the beginning of the year.