From InSight Crime, September 10:
Private security companies have surged in Ecuador as crime has intensified, but mounting evidence of criminal infiltration in the industry suggests that it may be servicing criminals as much as the private sector and the government.
Take the recent case of Carlos Joel G.C., alias “Carlitos,” a Guayaquil drug trafficker who headed one of “the largest and most sophisticated organizations” in the country, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Carlitos relied on a fleet of armored vehicles to transport cocaine to shrimp farms surrounding Guayaquil’s many estuaries. From there, speedboats carried the drugs, often in multi-ton quantities, to cargo ships around the city’s port terminals....
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