Views From Ecuador's "Internal War"
I want to provide my readers a list of links from various press outlets here in Ecuador that cover some aspects of the battle raging within Ecuador for control of the industrial-level cocaine traffic that flows through this country, most of which is destined for the black markets in Europe and the U$$A, Inc. It’s not really important if you do not read or understand Latin American Spanish. The images and my commentary will convey the gist of what is happening.
The societal/military/police/political context is that Ecuador is wracked by murderously violent, organized crime, as well as a higher than normal level of street crime. It is therefore not recommended for the average foreign tourist to visit Ecuador at this time, unless they/she/he/it have a high level of situational awareness, and are able to handle themselves well in potential criminally violent conditions. If you are not Jackie Chan, or this guy, maybe book a week at a resort in Bermuda or the Virgin Islands.
The President of Ecuador, wealthy scion of a billionaire, banana producing and exporting family, has declared a 60 day, national period of emergency powers, during which he has unleashed the Army and National Police to go after the criminal gangs and other criminal elements, including in the government itself.
Here is a police video from today’s news cycle. In the large, coastal city of Guayaquil the police raided a residence and found 40 sticks of pentolite - - a powerful, industrial and also military grade explosive, used in artillery shells, for one instance. How did the miscreants in question get dozens of sticks of pentolite? I have no idea. We live in a violently chaotic world awash in weapons of every description. I’m not involved in the weapons trade, licit or illicit, so I don’t know what more to tell you. Pay attention at approximately timestamp 0:19, 17 to 21 seconds in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzgD29NEnG8
Here’s another case from about two weeks ago. The cops found 131 sticks of dynamite in front of a precinct police station in a neighborhood not far from the historic, colonial center of Quito. That quantity of dynamite could practically level a small neighborhood - - which, who knows, might have been the foiled/incomplete plan. Sadly, there are really violent actors in this world, hatching darkly foul plans. Here’s a photo.
https://imagenes.extra.ec/files/image_full/uploads/2024/01/16/65a68f12bd6a5.jpeg
Then there are three guys on the southside of Quito whom the cops arrested yesterday, with five sticks of dynamite and a pistol. What were they planning on doing with the dynamite and pistol? Probably nothing good.
https://twitter.com/PoliciaEcuador/status/1753030237921714313
Here is an arsenal that the police were tipped off about here in the Quito area. There are 108 shotguns, rifles, pistols and revolvers in total, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. The owner first claimed that he had “gun clubs” by way of explanation, then fell back on claiming that he is a “gun collector” - - and most recently has come down with a serious case of the vapors, seeing as he has reportedly taken to bed, and is on oxygen. The National Police have preliminarily charged him with weapons trafficking and are investigating the weapons cache. He’s facing 5 to 7 years in prison. If he can’t come up with lawful documentation for the guns, and a good explanation that will convince a court of law as to why in the world he has all of that fire power and ammo, he’s probably going to do several years in prison.
https://imagenes.extra.ec/files/image_full/uploads/2024/01/25/65b2de9c394d5.jpeg
https://media.primicias.ec/2024/01/17101251/armas-cumbaya-1.jpg
https://twitter.com/FiscaliaEcuador/status/1747620253935239432
https://twitter.com/PoliciaEcuador/status/1747622852201676877
The following photo is of the arrest of several persons who have been charged with drilling into a large petroleum products pipeline that runs between the coastal cities of La Libertad and Manta. It carries diesel and gasoline. The ramshackle construction in the background is where they drilled down underground and tapped into the pipeline, to siphon off diesel fuel and gasoline for sale on the black market. Not so easy to do, and very dangerous! But the pipeline police detected anomalies and tracked down the sector where the problem was occurring. This sort of crime is recurrent in Ecuador.
Here is a photo from recent days of a police operation in Nueva Prosperina, a violent, crime ridden neighborhood on the outskirts of Guayaquil. Ecuador is full of myriad thousands of angry, violent, ill- or entirely uneducated young men, most of them with no job prospects whatsoever (doing what?), with absolutely no prospect of social or financial betterment -- and so they are easy pickings when the criminal gangs come recruiting. Lamentably the recruitment can consist of the gang telling a kid that he must come to work for them, or they will kill him. If he refuses, they send a hit man to his house and kill him. It happens all the time.
https://media.primicias.ec/2024/01/24104626/detenidos-operativo-nueva-prosperina-765x429.jpg
Here is a photo of a small military operation at a mass transit terminal in Quito. The soldiers are stopping male commuters/pedestrians, frisking them, examining their personal ID, and searching their backpacks or shoulder bags. The Army operation is looking for pistols, revolvers, knives, explosives, narcotics, fake ID, escaped prisoners from jails and prisons across the country, etc.
https://imagenes.extra.ec/files/image_full/uploads/2024/01/15/65a5a513631da.jpeg
In the following photo from a week or two ago the National Police are getting ready to go into one of the prisons with great force, with a long line of armored vehicles. The prisons here are quite violent. The prisoners are armed with shotguns, rifles, pistols, sticks of dynamite, military grenades, machetes, etc. The police need to go in with what amounts to a paramilitary operation to put down the frequent, murderous uprisings. The criminal gangs ruthlessly control the prison system in Ecuador.
https://imagenes.extra.ec/files/image_full/uploads/2024/01/14/65a41aa785fc2.jpeg
This is what the Army and National Police do when they go into the prisons; they zip tie the hands of all prisoners and order everyone face down on the ground at gunpoint, while they search the cell blocks for rifles, pistols, shotguns, dynamite, grenades, machetes, pistol and rifle ammo, shotgun shells, and more - - which they do find.
This is just part of what the police found in one of the prisons this week: many rounds of rifle and pistol ammo, magazines, and many shotgun shells. as well as pistols and long weapons of artisanal manufacture inside the prison.
https://media.primicias.ec/2024/01/31070048/armas-carceles.jpg
A couple of weeks ago 68 armed men took over a hospital near Guayaquil by force, in a dispute between criminal gangs, in which a rival gang member had been shot and admitted for treatment. The National Police and Army soon showed up and put down the armed, hospital take over with superior force. In this picture they have the miscreants stripped to their shorts, face down on the ground. They all went straight to prison. What else can be done? After a stunt like that they can’t be given lollipops and released back to the street. For public safety they have to be caged. They cannot be allowed to roam freely in society.
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Who can forget the stunning scenes of the armed invasion of the TV station in Guayaquil three weeks ago? A band of armed terrorists burst into the studio during a live, on air broadcast and took everyone there hostage at gunpoint. The violent scene was broadcast all over Ecuador and much of the rest of the world. The National Police and Army responded with great force, entered the studio and captured the “terrorists.” They subdued and unmasked them.
Take a good luck at the “terrorists” - - a bunch of scared teenaged boys - - 14, 15, 16, 17 years old - - on their way to a really violent prison for decades, for being “terrorists.” Their lives are over, before they even began. They never had a whiff of a chance at a good job - - or practically any job of any kind, of marrying and raising a family, of going to high school and then off to a university, of traveling, etc. I know that it is a statistical certainty that some of my readers use cocaine, because most of my readers are in the CONUS/U$$A, Inc and Europe, and most of the cocaine shipped from Ecuador goes to Europe and the CONUS/U$$A, Inc. To those of you that fit in that demographic think of these young kids in a hell hole of a prison, their lives destroyed forever, because of the horrors of cocaine cartel ravaged Ecuador - - the next time you snort a line of coke or smoke some crack.
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Here’s a photo of a large cocaine confiscation operation in recent weeks here in Ecuador. The cocaine was hidden in underground chambers within the acreage of a banana plantation. The value of this one, immense haul may run into the billions of dollars, depending on its purity.
https://cuencahighlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/coke2-jpg.webp
Here’s another view. Notice that a great many of the bricks are stamped KLM, the initials of the Royal Dutch Airlines. Is KLM involved in cocaine trafficking? I have no idea. I ask simply because a large number of these confiscated cocaine bricks are marked KLM.
https://imagenes.extra.ec/files/image_full/uploads/2024/01/22/65aeeecf126e8.jpeg
Most of the cocaine that goes from Ecuador to Europe is unloaded in the huge banana port in Antwerp-Belgium, right next door to the Netherlands (home of KLM), so who knows?
Oh, wait! A quick check of the KLM website shows that two of KLM’s “trending routes” are Quito-Amsterdam and Guayaquil-Amsterdam, in addition to Quito-Paris, Quito-Madrid, Guayaquil-Shanghai, etc.
https://www.klm.com.ec/en/travel-guide/destinations/south-america/ecuador/quito
You don’t think that maybe on some of those KLM flights from Ecuador back to Amsterdam and other major, world cities that down in the baggage compartments there might be a ton or two of, well, you know, uh - - that is, mixed in with the suitcases ‘n stuff that, um … there could possibly be some special delivery pallets that by prior agreement are not subjected to the same international airport, police state rigmarole that all other cargo, baggage and passengers must undergo .. .. .. ??
I never go to the airport - - why would I? - - so I categorically cannot say one way or the other what flies away from Ecuador - - or doesn’t! - - in the cargo bays of KLM airplanes.
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