From Peru to Ecuador: Tumbes's porous border supplies weapons to the mafias that put the country in jeopardy

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From Peru to Ecuador: Tumbes's porous border supplies weapons to the mafias that put the country in jeopardy

In 2023, the scene that has most exposed citizen insecurity in Latin America was the eruption of a dozen armed hooded men in an Ecuadorian television program live and live. A fact that led the Government of Daniel Noboa to declare the existence of an internal armed conflict in the country. In the midst of tensions over the measure and an environment of uncertainty, a detail involving Peru has set off alarm bells: one of the grenades carried by t…