The U.S. and Ecuador carried out a joint operation targeting \u200bdrug trafficking operations in the South American country, authorities \u200bin both countries said on \u2060Friday, with the U.S. calling the move “lethal kinetic operations.” Neither the U.S. Southern \u200bCommand, a branch \u200cof its military that oversees forces in Latin America, nor Ecuador’s defense ministry, said if anyone was killed \u200bor captured in the strike, which Ecuador dubbed operation “Total Extermination.” The operations used helicopters, aircraft, river boats and drones to locate and bomb \u200ca drug \u200ctraffickers’ training camp \u200bin 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 \u200bof FARC dissidents, and had a capacity for 50 people, it added. Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa has made a military crackdown on organised \u200bcrime a cornerstone of his administration, and his governme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The U.S. and Ecuador carried out a joint operation targeting \u200bdrug trafficking operations in the South American country, authorities \u200bin both countries said on \u2060Friday, with the U.S. calling the move “lethal kinetic operations.” Neither the U.S. Southern \u200bCommand, a branch \u200cof its military that oversees forces in Latin America, nor Ecuador’s defense ministry, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n