Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno presented a defence, security, and development plan for the country’s northern border provinces on 18 June. “State indifference has ended,” Moreno said. “We cannot allow social peace to be damaged by criminal gangs, especially those dedicated to drug-trafficking,” he added in a clear allusion to the Frente Oliver Sinisterra (FOS) group of dissident Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Farc) guerrillas operating in the border area with Colombia, which abducted and murdered three Ecuadoreans working for the national daily
El Comercio in April.
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