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.
- On Wednesday, United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem arrived in Manta to tour the Eloy Alfaro air base, Manta, Ecuador, assessing sites for Department of Homeland Security offices.
- Ecuadorians must approve in a referendum set for November 16 whether to allow foreign bases, after President Daniel Noboa called it on September 19, amid a constitutional ban since 2008.
- Rising homicides and anti-narcotics efforts involve about twenty drug gangs linked to international cartels, with Ecuador lacking key resources, said Defense Minister Gian Carlo Loffredo.
- If approved by voters, United States security and defense agencies would operate at the sites with Ecuadorian police and military forces, while both governments ruled out a Galápagos base.
- The Salinas visit on Thursday comes as the Department of Homeland Security, whose roles include counterterrorism, border control and migration management, evaluates strategic facilities.
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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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eldiariodechihuahua.mxThe United States is interested in setting up offices of its department of National Security in facilities in Ecuador.
Ecuadoran social organizations describe the amendment of article 5 of the Constitution and the establishment of foreign bases as a threat to national sovereignty.
Chicago Tribune
QUITO (AP) — Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa showed U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem an airport and military facilities in the South American country on Wednesday where a U.S. military base could potentially be established to combat drug trafficking and organized crime. Last Friday, the president indicated that Ecuador is seeking agreements with the United States and Brazil to establish military bases to fight organized crime, as t…
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