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This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Charlotte Gallagher, and in the early hours of Monday, the 17th of November, these are our main

stories. The leader of one of Ecuador's biggest drug trafficking gangs,

Wilmer Pippo Chavaria, is captured. Donald Trump calls for the Epstein files to be released,

reversing his previous position. And a German auction of items from a Nazi concentration camp is

cancelled.

Also in this podcast, we visit the Amazon rainforest as COP 30 debates Sawyer Beans.

We can see this vast port complex.

There are three huge silos where they store the beans.

And then a giant, everything is huge here. A giant sort of conveyor belt that goes out on a huge bridge.

Ecuadorians have voted not to allow foreign military bases back into their country. Sunday's

referendum was proposed by the right-wing government as part of efforts

to combat rising gang violence. The result is a blow for President Daniel Naboa, who'd been

pushing for help from the United States. But he did claim another win, announcing that the leader

of one of Ecuador's biggest drug cartels had been captured.

We have captured the highest value target on the list of criminals who harm us so much

and harm the entire region, which is Pippo, supreme leader of Los Lobos.

This was thanks to international cooperation with Spain and the United States.

Wilmer Pippo Chavaria was detained in the Spanish city of Malaga,

four years after faking his own death during the COVID pandemic.

He'd been hiding in Europe while continuing to control criminal operations back home.

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