Ecuador refuses to deliver Soviet military equipment to the United States. President Daniel Noboa on Thursday February 8, 2024 said he was considering exchanging Russian military equipment described as “obsolete” for $200 million in American weapons.
Moscow's reaction, threatening Ecuadorian exports of bananas and flowers, quickly dissuaded Quito from pursuing this path. “ Ecuador will not send any war material to a country involved in an international armed conflict,” Foreign Minister Maria Gabriela Sommerfeld assured a parliamentary committee.