Ecuador’s Illegal Mining Crackdowns Miss the Mark

Ecuador’s Illegal Mining Crackdowns Miss the Mark

Ecuador’s Illegal Mining Crackdowns Miss the Mark Massive operations by Ecuador’s military against illegal mining following a historic massacre will do little to slow one of the country’s most lucrative criminal economies.Ecuador has deployed 1,800 soldiers to the country’s Amazon region, the army announced in a May 12 social media post. In the operations unfolding since, security forces have seized heavy machinery, fuel, firearms, and other mat…