Threats of illegal mining

The Ecuadorian government identified Comandos de la Frontera, a group that was born with dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), as responsible for the attack in which eleven Ecuadorian military personnel who were carrying out illegal mining control tasks were killed.

Illegal mining "is a phenomenon that is penetrating us not only geographically but at the level of institutions," says María Belén Arroyo, political editor Revista Vistazo. La entrada María Belén Arroyo: We are living a violent expansion of Comandos de la Frontera in Orellana was first published in Teleamazonas.

They were known in their region for being part of the group that resisted the illegal mining that began when organized crime groups began to dispute the territory.

More than 1,500 military personnel were deployed in Orellana province, following the murder of 11 soldiers during an operation, the miner being illegal.