There has been an influx of military grade equipment coming in from Mexico the last few years, Uber driver rumors of armored personnel carriers and more. Just last October Guayaquil had a slew of car bombs and coordinated attacks in the middle of the city. Strange times as historically Ecuador's role in the drug trade was almost entirely money laundering as they use the U$D in place of their own currency, but that's no longer the case.
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There has been an influx of military grade equipment coming in from Mexico the last few years, Uber driver rumors of armored personnel carriers and more. Just last October Guayaquil had a slew of car bombs and coordinated attacks in the middle of the city. Strange times as historically Ecuador's role in the drug trade was almost entirely money laundering as they use the U$D in place of their own currency, but that's no longer the case.