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Ecuadorian police seized 58 kilos of drugs hidden in a container destined for Gracia, Interior Minister John Reimberg reported on Tuesday.
In the town of Posorja, in the coastal province of Guayas, the Police detected a suspicious container, so they drilled its structure and found the drugs, valued at 1.4 million dollars in the North American market.
Surrounded by Colombia and Peru, the two largest global producers of cocaine, with several ports on its coasts and a dollarized economy, Ecuador has become in recent years an important passage for the trafficking of that drug that is mostly directed to Europe and North America.
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According to the Ministry of the Interior, between November 23, 2023 (when Daniel Noboa took office) and that day in 2025, they have destroyed 499.16 tons of seized drugs, affecting the economy of criminal structures by millions. Since January 2024, Ecuador has been under an 'internal armed conflict' that the president, Daniel Noboa, declared to confront organized crime gangs, mainly dedicated to crimes such as drug trafficking, whom he began to call "terrorists". Criminal organizations are behind the escalation of violence that led Ecuador to become in 2023 the Latin American country with the highest homicide rate, while 2025 began as the most violent year on record, with an average of approximately one murder per hour. With 4,619 murders between January and June of this year, Ecuador recorded the most violent semester since records have been kept, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior, a trend that could lead the country to end the year with more than 50 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants.
