Ecuador: more than 10,000 arrests in the “internal war” against crime. Massive presence of police and soldiers in the streets has also reduced the number of daily homicides from 27 to 11.
On paper, the results of the first seven weeks of the fight against delinquency since the beginning of January in Ecuador are impressive. The Security Axis integrated by the military, police and government authorities speaks of more than 123,000 operations carried out against gangs, or more than 2,600 per day. At this rate, Ecuador could double this year the tonnage of cocaine seizures.