{"id":487396,"date":"2025-10-19T19:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/ecuador-seeks-to-strengthen-together-with-the-oas-the-fight-against-drug-trafficking-and-intelligence-systems\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T23:52:35","slug":"ecuador-seeks-to-strengthen-together-with-the-oas-the-fight-against-drug-trafficking-and-intelligence-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/ecuador-seeks-to-strengthen-together-with-the-oas-the-fight-against-drug-trafficking-and-intelligence-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador seeks to strengthen, together with the OAS, the fight against drug trafficking and intelligence systems"},"content":{"rendered":"Guayaquil, Ecuador.- <\/strong>The Government of Ecuador seeks to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking and intelligence systems together with the Organization of American States (OAS), whose Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, will hold an official agenda this Monday in the Andean country and will meet with the president, Daniel Noboa.\n\nRamdin arrived in Quito on Saturday afternoon and this Monday, in addition to the meeting with Noboa, will hold a working meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Gabriela Sommerfeld, and will subsequently sign a memorandum of understanding for technical cooperation in security.\n\nThis agreement “will lay the groundwork for making the OAS’s technical capabilities in security available to the country,” Ramdin said on Saturday, adding that he will be accompanied on this visit by the OAS Secretary for Multidimensional Security, Iv\u00e1n Marques.\n\nThe Chancellery reported this Sunday that together with the OAS they will promote “a program for the Americas focused on multidimensional security and regional cooperation”, with which they will promote “peaceful environments that strengthen sustainable development and economic growth” of the peoples.\n\n\n

You can read: Venezuela’s Defense Minister says canonizations grant a “spiritual shield”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\nIn addition, they will also seek to strengthen the fight against transnational organized crime and criminal investigation; the training of the public force, the fight against all forms of violence and the control of the illicit trafficking of weapons.\n\nThe Foreign Ministry added that “issues on democracy” will be addressed with the secretary, within the framework of the referendum to be held on November 16, in which, at Noboa’s initiative, Ecuadorians will be consulted on the installation of a Constituent Assembly to draft a new Constitution.\n\nAnd they will also talk about “the actions of the OAS for the benefit of the region”, upcoming meetings such as the Summit of the Americas to be held in December in the Dominican Republic, and cooperation with the Ibero-American community.\n\nThe OAS Secretary arrived in the country after he condemned on his X account on Friday the explosion of a car bomb that occurred on Tuesday in Guayaquil, the most populated city in the country, and called it “an act of terrorism that has no place in the Americas”.\n\n“Attacks targeting civilians and public spaces are an affront to democracy, peace, and the rule of law,” he said.\n\nThe government has indicated that Los Lobos, the largest criminal gang in Ecuador, were behind the attack, in “retaliation” for the operations against illegal mining that security forces are carrying out in the north of the country.\n\nEcuador has been living since 2024 under an “internal armed conflict” declared by President Noboa to confront criminal gangs especially dedicated to drug trafficking, who have been called “terrorists”, and who are attributed to the escalation of violence that the Andean country has experienced in recent years, which has placed it at the head of the homicide index in Latin America.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guayaquil, Ecuador.- The Government of Ecuador seeks to strengthen the fight against drug trafficking and intelligence systems together with the Organization of American States (OAS), whose Secretary General, Albert Ramdin, will hold an official agenda this Monday in the Andean country and will meet with the president, Daniel Noboa. Ramdin arrived in Quito on Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":487397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-22Ne","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-19-195008.png","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/10\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-10-19-195008.png"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}