00:00Extraditions and coordination against organized crime, a long-awaited reunion with the
00:04President Daniel Loa. That's what Marco Rubio, secretary of
00:08State of the United States, on his visit to Ecuador, exactly one year after having made
00:12A similar one. After shaking hands with the president
00:15Abelardo de la Esprilla in Barranquilla, this high-ranking official of the Donald Trump administration
00:19He will arrive in Quito to make his message clear: criminal organizations are not untouchable.
00:24Rubio arrives this Wednesday, September 9th, in the Ecuadorian capital, and does so at a moment
00:28in which the Andean country has become one of Washington's biggest partners in
00:32their strategy against drug trafficking, carrying out operations against vessels allegedly
00:37related to the mafias in the Ecuadorian Pacific.
00:39On Tuesday alone, one day before his trip to Ecuador, the United States Southern Command
00:43reported the destruction of a ship, the sixth in less than two weeks, allegedly by
00:48to operate as a refueling station for drug trafficking operations
00:52of the Choneros. US forces intercepted the fishing vessel Don Rufo, captured
00:57They found its crew and sank it, the command reported on its X account, where it posted
01:01The video of the operation. In addition to those six cases, fishermen and their families report
01:06alleged attacks on three other vessels carried out in January and March of this year near
01:11of the Galapagos Islands, including one in which eight people disappeared, but that
01:15They have not been recognized by the United States or Ecuador.
01:18Rubio recalled that last year the Trump administration formally designated the wolves, the
01:22Choneros and the Chon Killers as foreign terrorist organizations and that since then
01:27Military coordination, public security, and intelligence capabilities have been unlocked
01:31criticism through the shield of the Americas and the coalition against the cartels of the
01:35Americas. He also highlighted that the Extradition Treaty is being modernized, which has already allowed
01:40that José Adolfo Macías, alias Fito, the top leader of the Choneros, was the first Ecuadorian
01:44He is expected to be extradited to the United States after his official visit to Ecuador.
01:49which will also include discussions on expanding commercial activity
01:52Rubio will arrive in Lima, where he will seek to synchronize efforts with the United States.
01:57Keiko Fujimori's new government faces transnational threats. This is why it was learned
02:01that the United States received Peru in the shield of the Americas.
02:04For now, the agreement with Colombia serves as a reference point. This included two memoranda of understanding.
02:08which will come into force during the next six months in the area of nuclear energy and in
02:13the mining and energy sector. Furthermore, the so-called Barranquilla Agreements were established
02:18The discussion focused on three pillars: security, economic reconstruction, and shared prosperity.
02:22of a program for Colombia to modernize airplanes, radars, drones, helicopters, systems
02:26Anti-drone systems, air defense, cyber defense, and special forces. Rubio, for his part, said
02:32that President Trump is willing to provide everything possible to help the country.
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