Author: María Teresa Ronderos

María Teresa Ronderos is a Colombian investigative journalist and director of the Independent Journalism Program at the Open Society Foundations. She is also a columnist for El Espectador.

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Ecuador’s Chaos May Trace Back To The Demise Of FARC In Colombia

photo of elite teams from the Ecuadorian armed forces carrying out patrols and searches to combat crime in conflict-prone sectors of the city of Quito.
Elite teams from the Ecuadorian armed forces carry out patrols and searches to combat crime in conflict-prone sectors of the city of Quito, on January 11. Juan Diego Montenegro/ZUMA

Ecuador’s simmering civil war, curiously, appears to also be a byproduct of the disbanding of Colombia’s FARC rebels in 2016. Since then, chaos has reigned through much of Latin American drug trafficking routes, reverberating with criminal elements in Ecuador.

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