U.S. Troops Help Ecuador Arrest Dozens Linked to Notorious Mexican Cartel
Authorities said the eight-month probe uncovered a network that moved drugs from Colombia through Ecuador and seized an estimated $322 million in assets.
- On Thursday, Ecuadorian National Police, supported by the DEA and Southern Command, arrested more than 30 people in raids targeting a drug trafficking network linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
- Following an eight-month investigation into a network transporting drugs from Colombia through Ecuador, Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa addressed the United Nations General Assembly calling for greater international cooperation against transnational crime.
- More than 320 Ecuadorian police and 50 Southern Command personnel conducted early-morning raids across Guayas and Oro, with authorities estimating seized assets worth $322 million to the organization.
- Interior Minister John Reimberg confirmed the network used ports in Guayaquil and Machala for storing and distributing drugs; an alleged leader was detained in the Isla Mocol area of Samborond.
- Noboa proposed a United Nations-based mechanism to track illicit financial flows, emphasizing that "no state can confront alone an enemy that crosses borders" in combating transnational organized crime.
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Eight months of investigation have culminated in a joint macro-operation in which U.S. troops from the Southern Command and DEA agents have joined the Ecuadorian National Police to disarm a drug trafficking network linked to the Mexican cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación, early this Thursday, May 24, in several provinces, leaving about thirty detainees. Drones, infrared cameras and mobile phone inhibitors have been used to enter the urbanisations a…
More than 320 members of the Ecuadorian National Police and 50 members of the United States Southern Command participated in the operation.
By Uriel Blanco, CNN en Español The Government of Ecuador reported this Thursday that, in an operation in conjunction with the Drug Control Administration (DEA) and the Southern Command of the United States, it dismantled a criminal structure that, he said, has direct links with the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), originally from Mexico and considered
Quito and Washington carry an offensive against drug trafficking, including the sinking of Ecuadorian vessels that allegedly supply fuel to narco boats on the high seas
Quito and Washington are carrying out a questionable offensive against drug trafficking, which includes the sinking of Ecuadorian-flagged vessels that allegedly supply fuel to narco boats on the high seas. Thursday morning's operation "was carried out in conjunction with the U.S. troops and the DEA (anti-drug agency)," said Interior Minister John Reimberg, in his X account. Some 30 Ecuadorians were arrested for having a "direct relationship with…
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