Everyone is worried about Ecuador right now. Europe is worried because cocaine from Ecuador is reaching European ports in record amounts.

Cocaine that's getting through the port of Antwerp is now flooding the streets of the

rest of Europe. The US is worried about Ecuador because violence from that

cocaine trade is sending Ecuadorians fleeing our way.

Just in fiscal year 2022, I believe, 107,000 Ecuadorians arrived at the US-Mexico border.

That's a huge number relative to the scale of the country.

And Ecuador is profoundly worried about Ecuador as drug gangs fight for

control of ports, streets, and prisons, and officials there openly speculate that the

countries become a

narco state. At the time I wondered if they were speaking in hyperbole but I

think the events of the last few months and last couple of weeks have shown that

they weren't. On Today explainedained, the world's most urgent cocaine problem.

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