Ecuador is a country in a state of emergency. Drug cartels and their killers are currently challenging state power.

So dangerous that the Federal Minister of the Interior should not stay here overnight. Nancy Faeser will stay in the capital Quito on Thursday, at least for a few hours.Faeser sees that Europeans also need to get more involved in the anti-drug war. But it could be more focus on Colombia in the future, where most of the material for the US market comes.