Ecuador gang leader speaks on violence and police infiltration

Ecuador gang leader speaks on violence and police infiltration

BBC journalist Orla Guerin speaks to a gang leader in Ecuador about the country's escalating drug violence, as police grapple with a surge in cocaine trafficking from Colombia and Peru. Powerful home-grown gangs, linked to Mexican cartels and Albanian mafia, smuggle cocaine onward. Ecuador's murder rate hit over 9,200 last year, one of the world's highest, with revelations of gang infiltration into the police force.

Source: BBC

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