Conflict report erupted yesterday between rival groups of drug traffickers at Waggil It increased to 22 dead, city police, port of strategic importance on the southwestern coast of the Pacific, which is one of the Latin America, which is harder than the wave of violence attributed to organized crime, said.

“Twenty -two people died and three others were injured by bullets. The victims injured were taken to different health centers to offer them medical care. “said the police, whose officer had earlier said at least 12 dead.

Crusaders who collided belonged to two rival gang facials Los tigueronesone of the strongest acting in the country, a source of the French agency in the police clarified.

This gang is among the nearly 20 criminal organizations that have relations with international drug cartels and scatter terror in the former peaceful country of 18 million inhabitants.

These organizations, which were characterized ‘Terrorist’ by the government’s government Daniel Nomboado not stop moving.

In part because of its position between Colombia and Peru, the two countries at the top of the world rankings in cocaine production, and its ports in the Pacific Ocean, Ecuador has become a theater of relentless conflict associated with drug trafficking.

The homicide index took off, crossing 6 per 100,000 in 2018 at 38 per 100,000 in 2024, after the horrifying record of 47 in 2023.

The president Nostrils He has turned the fight against drug gangs into the central issue of his election campaign: he hopes to be re -elected on April 13, in the second round of presidential elections, in which he will face the Evangelical Lawyer and a candidate for the Left.

After declaring Ecuador in January 2024 in a state ‘Internal armed conflict’ And he developed the army on the streets, after also imposing seven of the 24 provinces of the country of emergency, he said last month that he would ask “allies” to send “special forces” to help authorities to confront “Drugs”.

About 73% of world cocaine production is trained through equator, according to reports from the interior ministry reproduced by the United Nations Office for Drugs Control and Crime Prevention (OMODC).

Authorities made 2024 seizures of a record of 294 tonnes of drugs, mainly cocaine, compared to 221 tonnes in 2023.