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Ecuadorian Drug War
Part of the war on drugs
Military situation of the 2024 conflict:
Controlled by Ecuadorian Armed Forces
Controlled by Drug cartels and Gangs
Date
27 January 2018 – present (6 years, 3 months and 1 day)
Location
Ecuador
Status
Ongoing
Belligerents
Government of Ecuador
National Police of Ecuador
Armed Forces of Ecuador
Ecuadorian Army
Ecuadorian Navy
Ecuadorian Air Force
Armed civilians Counter-terrorist PMCs
Supported by:
United States
CIA
Canada
Colombia
Mexico
Peru
Organized crime groups
Sinaloa Cartel
Los Choneros
CJNG
Los Lobos
Chone Killers
Los Tiguerones
Los Lagartos
Latin Kings
Albanian mafia
NETA Association
PCE-SR
FARC–EP
FARC dissidents
ELN
La Empresa
Other groups
Commanders and leaders
Daniel Noboa
Jaime Vela Erazo
José Adolfo Macías
Fabricio Colón Pico
Jorge Luis Zambrano
Antonio Camacho
Terry Israel Camacho
Units involved
159,250 military 46,727 police
Unknown
Casualties and losses
14,218 fatalities
The Ecuadorian Drug War (Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en Ecuador, transl. 'War against drug trafficking in Ecuador') is an internal conflict in Ecuador waged by the Ecuadorian security forces against criminal groups since the beginning of 2018. The conflict is divided into two parts, the first is the Ecuadorian government against satellite groups of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and Sinaloa Cartel, and the second is the confrontation between said satellite groups for dominance and hegemony.[1]
The geographic location of the Republic of Ecuador as a strategic transit route for drugs from Colombia and Peru into Mexico and later the United States and Europe was always a concern, but it was with the evolution of the Colombian internal armed conflict and the remainders of the guerrilla forces of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia that Ecuador became more involved. The first major incident was an attack against law enforcement in San Lorenzo, which unleashed a wave of violence on the northern coast of the country. The main suspect in the attack was a FARC-EP dissident led by Ecuadorian drug traffickers.[1]
At the end of 2019, the presence of European mafias in Ecuador was first documented, the main one being the Albanian mafia. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the crisis became latent with the entry of illegal weapons from Peru, one of the main sources of arms to armed gangs in Ecuador. Earlier in 2019, a prison crisis broke out in Guayaquil [es] due to the city's prisons becoming important links of communication and confrontations between the armed groups. Later that same year the crisis spread to other prisons nationwide and violence reached the streets again in 2022.[2]
In January 2024, the conflict reached a critical point when armed conflict broke out in Ecuador between the armed forces and several organized crime groups.[3]
^ ab"Cómo Ecuador pasó de ser país de tránsito a un centro de distribución de la droga en América Latina (y qué papel tienen los carteles mexicanos)". BBC (in Spanish). 11 October 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^"El narcoterrorismo en Ecuador ha crecido en silencio desde 2018". Primicias.ec. (in Spanish). 16 August 2022. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
^Phillips, Tom (2024-01-11). "Ecuador's biggest city 'a desert' as state tries to restore order after gang violence". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
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