The President of the Ecuador Daniel Nomboato ‘War’ Against gangs, he said Tuesday that organized crime has ‘Annual turnover’ which is over ‘$ 30 billion’dirty money that ensures thanks to trafficking ‘Drugs, weapons and ores that are illegally mined’, Almost equal to one quarter – 24% – of the GDP of the Latin American state of 18 million.

It is “very money, very cash,” the 37 -year -old state leader insisted during an interview with a public television network.

In January 2024, Mr Noboa declared Ecuador in a state ‘Internal armed conflict’ And he described some twenty gangs of “terrorist” organizations involved in it, constantly developing the army on the streets, and also imposed a state of emergency on seven of the 24 provinces of the country.

The measures taken took off the public deficit, which reached 57% of GDP, however, were credited with a reduction in the homicide index to 38 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2024, after the tragic record of 47/100,000 in 2023.

The index did not exceed 6 in 2018.

‘We’re in war’, President Nobya re -out. “When she is killed (…) This is a war” and must ‘Act to reaction’he said, referring to the murder of a senior Air Force officer who led operations against drug trafficking on Friday, near the Guagilian prison (southwest).

“The one who wins the most battles, who manages to conquer the most territory, who manages to exterminate the enemy, is the one who wins the war,” The head of state flew.

Mr Nokopa, son of banana tycoon, keeps a hard line against the drug cartels that have been turned into a gangrene – this proposes in his campaign for his re -election. After a short term of 18 months, after the premature presidential and parliamentary elections announced by his predecessor Guillermo Lassoas he was threatened with a trial in Congress and corruption for corruption, Mr Nipo will face the Evangelical Lawyer in the second round of voting on April 13th. Louisa GonzalezCandidate for the Left factions.

According to the official final results, released yesterday, in the first round of the elections on 9 February, Mr Noboa prevailed with his opponent, but with a completely marginal difference of 0.2%: received 4,527,255 votes, or 44.17% , compared to 4,507,508, or 43.97%, secured by Mrs Gonzalez, according to the National Electoral Council (CNE, the Electoral Committee).

Port of strategic importance in exporting cocaine to US and Europe markets Waggila city of some three million inhabitants, has become a theater of successive clarifications of opponent gang accounts. Only on the weekend, 14 people were murdered there, seven on Sunday night on a middle -road attack.

Ecuador lies between Colombia and Peru, the two countries with the largest production of cocaine in the world. In 2024, authorities seized a total of 294 tonnes of drugs, mainly cocaine, compared to 221 tonnes in 2023.