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Andean Group - September 2022
Introduction
The bomb blast that tore through a residential street in Guayaquil’s Cristo del Consuelo neighbourhood on 14 August was perhaps the starkest example to date of how Ecuador’s drug gangs are borrowing tactics from their more seasoned peers in Colombia and Mexico. We begin this September 2022 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group with an examination of how the criminal landscape in Ecuador is changing, and how the authorities are turning to increasingly militarised tactics in response. Continuing our focus on Ecuador, the second article looks at the increasingly rocky road ahead if President Guillermo Lasso is to achieve his goal of doubling oil production to 1m barrels per day – a figure that looks increasingly unrealistic.
