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#NewWorldReport: Is Ecuador a failed state? Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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#NewWorldReport: Is Ecuador a failed state? Joseph Humire @JMHumire @SecureFreeSoc. Ernesto Araujo, Former Foreign Minister Republic of Brazil. #NewWorldReportHumire

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuadorean-prosecutor-killed-by-gang-police-2024-01-18/


https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/ecuador-president-seeks-us-european-debt-support-amid-war-gangs-2024-01-22/

1905 Ecuador

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0:00.0

This is a new world.

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This is CBS I and the world.

0:07.0

I'm John Bachelor, New World Report, with Ernesto Arruja

0:10.0

former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil

0:12.0

and we're joined by our good

0:13.4

colleague Joseph Umyre of secure free society to comment on the trouble in

0:18.7

Ecuador when last we left the new president in the boa he was overwhelmed with crisis in Port City a week

0:27.1

later there's not so much violence but there's a lot of doubt about Ecuador. It is now the number two origin of migrants moving

0:39.8

through the Darien gap for the United States, people fleeing the country.

0:43.6

So Joseph, a very good morning to you.

0:46.6

Of striking note last week at the end, Ecuadorian prosecutor tasked to investigate the TV takeover. during Does he need outside help? The army was deployed and immediately the gunfire stopped,

1:05.7

but that doesn't mean it solved.

1:07.1

Good evening to you, Joseph.

1:08.7

Good evening, John.

1:10.1

Yeah, no, Ecuador is one of the situations in Latin America that perhaps has the most urgent need for security.

1:19.4

I mean all Latin America's experiences to various levels, but Ecuador's had one of the worst explosions

1:26.5

of transnational organized crime in the last several years.

1:30.0

We remember the assassination of Fernando Villiesencio, a presidential candidate that was brutally

1:35.7

assassinated while he was on the campaign last year.

1:38.6

Recently, I think most people saw the images of the gangs that were basically taken over the TV stations, attacking

1:45.2

universities, and basically just running rampant throughout the Guayakil and other parts of the country.

1:51.6

And if you follow Ecuador consistently you know that

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