
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Ecuador has become the new frontline in an escalating drug war.
And ordinary people are the ones paying the price as the country’s murder rate doubledlast year.
Rival drug cartels have taken over Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, in a bid to control lucrative new drug routes to Europe and the United States.
Our reporter, Guillermo Galdos, visited the once peaceful city for Unreported World, and spent two weeks with the local police, who are now outgunned and outnumbered.
Today, Krishnan talks to Guillermo about what has driven Ecuador to become a major player in this bloody turf war and what can be done to stop it.
Warning: this episode contains content some may find disturbing.
Sources: CGTN
Produced by: Rachel Evans
By Channel 4 News5
1212 ratings
Ecuador has become the new frontline in an escalating drug war.
And ordinary people are the ones paying the price as the country’s murder rate doubledlast year.
Rival drug cartels have taken over Ecuador’s largest city, Guayaquil, in a bid to control lucrative new drug routes to Europe and the United States.
Our reporter, Guillermo Galdos, visited the once peaceful city for Unreported World, and spent two weeks with the local police, who are now outgunned and outnumbered.
Today, Krishnan talks to Guillermo about what has driven Ecuador to become a major player in this bloody turf war and what can be done to stop it.
Warning: this episode contains content some may find disturbing.
Sources: CGTN
Produced by: Rachel Evans

351 Listeners

264 Listeners

142 Listeners

626 Listeners

68 Listeners

53 Listeners

989 Listeners

24 Listeners

730 Listeners

2,968 Listeners

985 Listeners

793 Listeners

335 Listeners

50 Listeners

2,186 Listeners

7 Listeners