Illicit Gold Mining in Ecuador – Challenges and Considerations
As illicit gold mining has become a larger business operation in Ecuador, other criminal activities have taken root.
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As illicit gold mining has become a larger business operation in Ecuador, other criminal activities have taken root.
Massive number but it has typically been about 400,000, 450,000 in recent years, so it is a big jump but it is on trend and an acceleration of what we were already seeing, and it has to do with a lot of lifestyle, quality-of-life issues. one of the chief among them is no income tax in places like tennessee, texas, and florida, and we have seen a very large influx of people, about 4 million people over the last decade have moved from income tax to nonincome tax states, but this was different this year. there were a lot of factors. i think crime was a factor but i think the covid policies are th...
Who ordered the extradition. i think people here -- the media, the government could no longer ignore this case is coming. this criminalization of -- it's basically a the biden administration that's criminalized telling the truth with this indictment it's even worse than that actually. they've criminalized knowing the classified information. so now it's coming to this country, the extradition has been ordered by the high court. i don't think people here could any longer ignore it. >> tucker: you gotta ask yourself, though, and i don't think you live in the united states, but we're in the middle...
Extradition so it's very unlikely that an appeal would go ahead so i think people here, the media, the government can no longer ignore that this case is coming. this criminalization of -- basically the biden administration has criminalized telling the truth with this indictment and it's even worse than that actually. they criminalize knowing classified information so now it is coming to this country, the extradition has been ordered by the high court, i don't think people here can any longer ignore it. >> tucker: you've got to ask yourself and i don't think you live in the united states but we...
This is what we keep seeing, the anguish of the family members who keep crying out for someone to do something because this keeps happening. >> kennedy: endings activist das are disconnected from police and they are the ones who helped declare war on the police and they are the ones who are just trying to do their job. many of them are retiring in record numbers, not only in new york but harris had a story last hour on the faulkner focus about portland and the crime problems they are having their and the difficulty that they are having re-staffing some of those police vacancies and you know, i...