Mexican and colombian cartels have infiltrated local gangs as they vie for lucrative drugs routes. Ecuador was hit hard by covid and theyve taken advantage of a country broken by a pandemic and by corrupt politics. The police are at pains to show me theyre fixing the problem, but when theyre having to protect themselves with sandbags in the police station, you realise this is a war without end. This used to be one of the main routes for traffickers. People would come up here with Stolen Phones and jewellery and exchange those goods for drugs up here, but the police have taken back this area. That said, the police have lost so much more control of the city of guayaquil. The bars on all the windows in this neighbourhood tell you all you need to know about the lack of security here. Angie fears for her four children. The police are powerless, she says. Just two weeks ago her neighbour was shot dead outside his daughters school. Translation all i want is security, thats the only thing that
A heritage artist from Samoa returned this week from a tour of museums and galleries in the United Kingdom where there are many Samoan artifacts collected by British and Scottish visitors to the archipelago in the late 18th to the early 19th centuries.Galumalemana Steven Percival of the Tiapapata.
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