The U.S. and Ecuador carried out a joint operation targeting drug trafficking operations in the South American country, authorities in both countries said on Friday, with the U.S. calling the move “lethal kinetic operations.” Neither the U.S. Southern Command, a branch of its military that oversees forces in Latin America, nor Ecuador’s defense ministry, said if anyone was killed or captured in the strike, which Ecuador dubbed operation “Total Extermination.” The operations used helicopters, aircraft, river boats and drones to locate and bomb a drug traffickers’ training camp in north-east Ecuador near the Colombian border, Ecuador’s defense ministry said in a statement. The camp belonged to the Comandos de la Frontera (CDF), a Colombian crime group made up of FARC dissidents, and had a capacity for 50 people, it added. Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has made a military crackdown on organised crime a cornerstone of his administration, and his governme
US, Ecuador bomb drug trafficker camp
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