Off-shore and airstrip drug activity along the Ecuador Coast is so bad in Manabí Province that radar may be installed shortly on private property.
By presidential decree, property owners in parts of the province will be subject to the installation of radar equipment to detect drug activity. Army officials say the radar will be operational by the end of this month, August 2021.
Recent murders inside Ecuadorian prisons and a four-fold increase in Guayaquil homicides since 2019 are being blamed on coastal drug-transport activity sponsored by cartels in Mexico and Colombia.
Officials say private airstrips in the San Isidro Hills near Montecristi have been used as a hub for drug transport from Peru to North America.
Source... www.cuencahighlife.com