Gunmen burst into Ecuador TV studio, take journalists hostage live on air • FRANCE 24 English
For some people it’s hard to understand why it’s happening how come you have Gangsters Organized Crime acting like some kind of gorilla force and really confronting the state and this we can really understand is something called violence lobbying using violence to pressure the government or attempt to
Pressure the government to back off so you’ve got this very large gang working with cartels in Ecuador Kos chos working with the caloa cartel here in Mexico that now Ecuador has become a very important place for bringing cocaine from Colombia round through the Panama Canal and particularly to the European
Market so this story is really linked to the European thirst for cocaine in the UK in France in Spain and Italy and many countries with these big profits they’ve become so powerful they really have become a threat to the Ecuadorian government now the new president Daniel no
Interestingly he used the phrase this is an internal armed conflict and we’re going to hunt them down like terrorists so he’s very much escalating this situation and now we could have more violence to come
Armed men wearing balaclavas burst into the studio of a public television station on Tuesday in Ecuador’s drug violence-torn port city of Guayaquil, taking hostage several journalists and staff members, live footage showed.
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7 comments
Drug free is the thing to be correct?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! "Multiculturalism." You really want this here?
The average american watching this video while snorting powder and being offended by literally anything else in the world.
Failed state status like South Africa.
This is the law & Order situation in Europe.
Anyone can pull that stunt
Do you think if we legalized it all and made it commercial (legit) and taxed it and made it illegal to be under the influence on the job, driving etc we could take away the power and the money of these warlords around the world?