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is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor.

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The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis. Here's John Bachelor.

The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies

Institute.

Ecuador, a deeply troubled country with a new president, Nubau, a young, the heir to a fortune, his father

is prominent in Ecuador, and yet Ecuador is overrun with violence these last weeks, the story

has been about prison troubles and

escaped gangsters and the TV studio episode followed by the investigator

for the TV episode in a port city being murdered by gang members

who have been detained.

So there's a sense that Ecuador is coming apart.

It is now the number two source of people traversing the Darien

Gap in Panama behind Venezuela. Venezuela is number one.

Ecuador is number two.

The people are voting with their feet.

I welcome the professor to comment on the latest headline

from Ecuador.

It connects the troubles with the gangs of neighboring countries.

Ecuador police capture leader of Colombian dissident rebel group. This is

headline Quito in these last hours.

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