Michael Yon has another great post that gives the background on the drug cartels trying to take over Ecuador, whose recently elected president is trying to stop them.
The background? Drug and people smuggling.
Ecuador --this is the well-established route established by Chinese through Colombia, Darien, CA -- to future American suburban rape and murder victims.
— Michael Yon: Callsign BIG HONEY 6 (@Michael_Yon) January 10, 2024
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I have family in Pasto, which is on the Pan American Highway near the Ecuador border.
The last time I was there was 30 years ago, but my son was there last year and said that the area is now dangerous.
Drugs are not produced in Pasto: it is too high in altitude. But it is on the Pan American highway, and the communist FARC was around back then, and used to hide in Ecuador.
Now that Colombia has a leftist president who has ties with that group, they are back in business.
I last visited in the 1990s, when FARC was still around. Pasto had low crime at the time, and yes FARC was busy but my son's brother in law was in FARC at the time so we figured we were safe.
The border is a bridge, but usually buses with shoppers stop and let people out. The cars are checked but those on foot were not inspected. (Colombians would shop there for cheap stuff, Ecuadorians shop in Colombia for higher quality stuff).
and when the local airport got fogged in, we took a taxi up the highway to the next city, about an eight hour ride, to catch our flight.
But now Yon is reporting on about a lot of Chinese visitors in Pasto who are planning to go to the USA.
other reports can be found here and here.
Secret Chinese Hotel Exposed - MILITARY AGED US-BOUND CHINESE STAGING AT COLOMBIAN HOTEL, CHINESE POLICE IN AMERICA
In Pasto, Colombia, Muckraker found a hotel packed to the brim with military-aged Chinese nationals who were headed to the United States.,
https://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/colombia-farc-peace-deal-amnesty-for-organized-crime/
Secret Chinese Hotel Exposed - MILITARY AGED US-BOUND CHINESE STAGING AT COLOMBIAN HOTEL, CHINESE POLICE IN AMERICA
— Muckraker.com (@realmuckraker) December 5, 2023
In Pasto, Colombia, Muckraker found a hotel packed to the brim with military-aged Chinese nationals who were headed to the United States.
During our stay at the… pic.twitter.com/1cWS1otfkZ
I don't know if this is being reported in the USA, but the drug gangs are attacking the press and the government in Ecuador: the story has reached the Phil Inquirer, although the story didn't have a lot of details.
What is happening in Ecuador? https://t.co/5VNtRhhNCJ
— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) January 11, 2024
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LegalInsurrection has a report pm Ecuadore here. LINK.
more here:
