US EditionUS security chief tours military bases in Ecuador before referendum
Kristi Noem inspects potential U.S. Department of Homeland Security bases amid a referendum on foreign bases, with homicides up over 600% in six years, officials said.
- U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa toured the former U.S. military base in Manta, Ecuador.
- Ecuador's defense policy has prohibited foreign military forces since 2008, but the Noboa administration is promoting constitutional reform to allow foreign troops.
- The proposal to establish a U.S. base could face internal resistance, as noted in the discussions surrounding the referendum.
- If approved, U.S. and Ecuadorian security forces will work together at these bases to combat organized crime.
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Ecuadorian voters will decide by referendum on 16 November whether they will allow the re-establishment in the territory of US Air Force sites removed by the 2008 Constitution.
The visit coincides with the official impetus for a constitutional reform that would allow the return of foreign bases
Ecuador's Noboa Hosts Kristi Noem to Assess Potential U.S. Bases In The Pacific
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem met with Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa in the coastal city of Manta to examine the capacity of a former U.S. military installation that could support future joint operations.
Ecuador's Noboa hosts US Homeland Security Secretary to discuss cooperation
Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa met on Wednesday with US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at the former Eloy Alfaro military base in Manta, Manabí province. The meeting aimed to advance bilateral cooperation against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime, with a focus on assessing technological and infrastructural capabilities.
Three months after her first visit to Ecuador, the Secretary of National Security of the United States, Kristi Noem, is back. This time she travels, along with President Daniel Noboa, two provinces of the Pacific Coast in which, probably, military bases can be installed, similar to the one that her country had between 1999 and 2008, until former President Rafael Correa terminated the agreement of the Manta Base by not renewing it. Secretary Noem…
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