Ecuador and Colombia to open shared border from Dec. 1

Ecuador and Colombia on Sunday agreed to the bilateral reopening of their shared border from the start of December after it was closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, and pledged to work together to combat drug trafficking.

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"Opening the borders means no Ecuadorian or Colombian family will have to pay criminal bands charging to cross via alternative routes, rather than the official ones, which will be opened on December 1," Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso said in Quito following a meeting with his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque.Ecuador is beset by a wave of crime that has caused homicides to spike which the country's authorities link to the trafficking and consumption of drugs.

"Ecuador will receive everything it needs from Colombia to fight against organized crime," Colombia's President Ivan Duque said. Violence in Ecuador's prisons has spiked this year as criminal gangs duke it out for supremacy. The most recent riot in the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison saw 62 prisoners killed.

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