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Error en el proceso de traducción «Several sources have informed us of an incursion across the northern border by Colombian guerrillas, driven by the Petro government,» Noboa stated on social media, who initiated the trade war with the neighboring country, considering that Colombia is not doing enough to prevent criminal organizations and the cocaine produced in that country from reaching Ecuador. «President Petro, dedicate yourself to improving the lives of your people instead of wanting to export problems to neighboring countries», the Ecuadorian president added, in whose communication he did not offer details of the point at which the incursion of guerrillas he mentions supposedly occurred.  In recent years, the presence and influence of dissident groups of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have consolidated in the Ecuadorian territory near the border, such as the Oliver Sinisterra Front and the Border Commands, dedicated not only to drug trafficking but also to illegal mining in different points of the border geography of Ecuador.

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Noboa has declared the Border Commands and other Colombian criminal groups as terrorists, in the same way he has done with the Ecuadorian criminal gangs to which the worst crisis of violence in the history of the Andean country is attributed, which is at the head of Latin America in homicides with an index of more than 50 per 100,000 inhabitants per year.

Trade war

Error en el proceso de traducción Error en el proceso de traducción In that context, the Armed Forces began to bomb in early March alleged camps of criminal gangs on the border with Colombia with the support of the United States. One of those bombs appeared in a coca crop field in Colombia, in an incident that raised tensions and was finally resolved by considering that the device had bounced in Ecuadorian territory without detonating. Recently, the tension between both leaders intensified when Petro insisted on the release of former correista vice president Jorge Glas, who is serving two sentences for corruption in prison and whom Noboa ordered to be recaptured in an assault on the Mexican Embassy in 2024 when he had received asylum from the Mexican Government. In response, Noboa has accused Petro of allegedly having links with drug trafficker José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias Fito, the top leader of Los Choneros, the oldest criminal gang operating in Ecuador, during his two-day stay in the coastal city of Manta in 2025 after attending the inauguration ceremony of the Ecuadorian president in Quito, something the Colombian president denies.

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