Security Update (Wed)

Spillover from the Colombian conflict into Ecuador is becoming increasingly manifest. The Ecuadorean military, spurred into heightened surveillance activity by the recent discovery of Farc guerrilla camps inside Ecuador, have discovered in Sucumbí­os, in late July, four more suspect encampments and engaged an unidentified armed group in a brief gunbattle. Elsewhere in the provinces bordering on Colombia they have discovered and destroyed several coca plantations.