Drug cartels have corrupted Mexican institutions that were supposed to be fighting these global criminal groups, and now the cartels are exporting their...
In October, two headless bodies dangled from a pedestrian bridge in a coastal city along the Pacific. It was the kind of scene that Mexicans and some Central Americans are well acquainted with, but for the people of Ecuador, this gruesome tableau inDespite its location between Colombia and Peru, the world’s top coca growers, Ecuador had managed to avoid the ravages of its neighbors’ drug wars.
Ecuador has become a hub for Mexican cartels exploiting a power vacuum left after the FARC peace accords in Colombia. The August assassination of journalist and presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, a crusader against narco corruption, plunged Ecuador to new depths of despair. Voters will decide the next president in an October runoff between a Correa loyalist and the heir of a banana empire, a seeming moderate whose alliances nevertheless raise questions about his true politics.
but does not use it to proactively identify suspicious activity or share it with other agencies with better analytical tools.The fight against the cartels requires all hands on deck. That’s why President Joe Biden formed the U.S. Council on Transnational Organized Crime, a cabinet-level, multi-agency group that would pool the federal government’s resources and expertise to hunt global mafias.
Separately, an executive order from 2011 allows the federal government to freeze the U.S. assets and blacklist members and collaborators of groups it designates as “transnational criminal organizations.”
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