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The border roads facing Colombia, located in the northwest of Carchi, have become the path used by the drug cartels that operate in the Colombian southwest (Nariño and Putumayo) to bring drugs into Ecuador.
Arms and military supplies traffickers filter through these arteries from Carchi these elements that come from Peru and Chile to supply the illegal armed groups of the neighboring country to the north.
According to military sources, these Colombian narco-criminal organizations based in the border departments (provinces) of Nariño and Putumayo receive protection from Colombian guerrilla dissidents or gangs and armed groups.
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Members of the Armed Forces, through the Major Galo Molina de Tulcán Infantry Battalion (BI-39), in the last hours immobilized in the Y de la Esperanza sector, in the parish of Chical, 100 km from Tulcán, a jute sack with ammunition of war.
Elements of the Chical Military Detachment seized 261 ammunition caliber 5.56 mm for rifle. And according to information provided by BI 39, the Colombian guerrilla pays $5 for each projectile in Ecuador, once in Colombian territory it reaches a price of $8.
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Mario Pazmiño, a military expert, pointed out that the supplies arrive in Pichincha, considered a hinge province, where there is a branch to Carchi that opens two routes: one that goes to Nariño and another to Sucumbíos to go to Putumayo.
Another arms trafficking corridor, said Pazmiño, runs through the Ecuadorian highlands and crosses Azuay, Cañar, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, with a branch towards Sucumbíos and then goes to the department of Putumayo, in Colombia.
During the action carried out by the military in the surveillance and border protection operations there were no detainees, there is the presumption that upon noticing the presence of the uniformed men who were moving the cartridges, they left the sack tossed and fled the area. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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