Ecuador, a extreme violence fueled by the left-wing and that could reach Spain

@ElentirENG ES 1·10·2024 · 7:00 0

This Tuesday, Ecuador has suffered a serious outbreak of violence by organized crime, which seeks to subdue the Ecuadorian State.

Fernando Villavicencio, center-right candidate for the presidency of Ecuador, was assassinated
The communist Gustavo Petro, drug trafficking and the applause from which only Vox distanced itself

A serious wave of violence in Guayaquil

This outbreak of violence has left eight people murdered in Guayaquil, in a wave of terrorism that has included murders of police and prison officials, assaults on five hospitals, a university, banks and shops, and even to a television channel that broadcast live.

Urgente!!
Delincuentes se metieron a las instalaciones de TC y tienen secuestrados a todos!! pic.twitter.com/AVehc0VDk6

— Emergencias Ec (@EmergenciasEc) January 9, 2024

The links between the Correist left and organized crime

These events have had precedents as serious as the murder of the center-right candidate Fernando Villavicencio, in Quito, at the exit of a political event. A crime with a clear political background: the murdered man had denounced the links of Rafael Correa's Citizen Revolution Movement with drug trafficking and with the narcoterrorists of the FARC. Finally, in the presidential elections held last summer, the winner was Daniel Noboa, a center-right candidate, and the left was defeated.

The new president is acting with a heavy hand against drug trafficking, and in response organized crime has unleashed the wave of violence that Ecuador is experiencing. The current situation in the country has its origins in the mandate of Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and his like-minded successors. Correa, currently on the run abroad and accused of corruption charges, allowed the Colombian communist terrorists of the FARC to operate in Ecuador, and in exchange the FARC came to finance Correa's political career, turning Ecuador into a narco-state.

The ties between the left and drug trafficking in other countries

Ecuador is not the only similar case in Latin America. Other leftist regimes have also promoted drug trafficking: communism in Cuba, its allies of Bolivarian socialism in Venezuela, Sandinist communism in Nicaragua, AMLO's left in Mexico, FMLN communism in El Salvador and the Peronist left in Argentina, all of them degrading their respective countries and plunging them into misery. The links of the communist Gustavo Petro with drug trafficking could take Colombia down the same path.

These ties between the left and drug trafficking have been growing in a dangerous spiral that millions of people are already suffering from: leftist regimes tolerate drug trafficking and benefit from it, obtaining a means of illicit enrichment for its elites; narcos control society, often becoming entangled in the very structures of the State and financing the electoral campaigns of leftist candidates (where there are still free elections: this is not the case of Cuba and Venezuela), and the circle begins again.

The war on drug trafficking in El Salvador, Ecuador and Argentina

Is it possible to get out of that spiral? Yes. But it's not easy. Confronting organized crime requires a tough hand. This is what Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Daniel Noboa in Ecuador (who has had to mobilize the Armed Forces against criminals) and Javier Milei in Argentina. What others have ruined for years now requires very firm politicians to not bow down to the blackmail of organized crime, which wants to be able to thrive again in leftist regimes.

A problem that looms over Spain through mass immigration

This serious problem could spread to Europe, and specifically to Spain, thanks to drug trafficking and mass immigration. In Spain there are already more than 400,000 immigrants from Ecuador. Many of them are people who lead an honest life and accept the most humble jobs. They do not deserve to be stigmatized because of their origin.

However, criminals of all kinds have arrived among them and among people from other Latin American countries. Currently, the problem of the so-called "Latin bands" is going on increase in Spain, at the same time as the degree of violence they use and their progressive transformation into forms of organized crime, linked to illegal businesses such as drug trafficking and prostitution.

A dangerous cocktail of a weak government allied with the far-left

In Spain there is another ingredient for this to give rise to a dangerous cocktail: a government supported by extreme left parties that are allies of the dictatorships of Cuba and Venezuela, that is, of regimes that live off drug trafficking. It is also about a weak government that allows itself to be bossed around by criminals, even at the cost of seriously endangering the rule of law in Spain. It is also about a government that intends to open our doors to all world, instead of putting a stop to illegal immigration and the serious social and insecurity problems it generates. With these ingredients, Spain has every chance to become the Ecuador of Europe.

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Photo: Efe. Soldiers of the Ecuadorian Army deploying in the streets after the serious acts of violence carried out by organized crime this Tuesday.