Guayaquil (Ecuador), December 13 (EFE). – A woman of Mexican nationality was deported from Ecuador after officials from the Undersecretary of State for Immigration and police determined that she had a history of drug trafficking and was considered a “threat to public safety and the structure of the State.”
The woman, identified as María J., was discovered trying to visit someone at a prison security checkpoint in the Andean city of Latacunga, capital of Cotopaxi province.
Through the exchange of information between authorities, the agents who arrested her learned that the woman and her ex-partner were allegedly committed to recruiting people to act as “mules” to transport drugs from Mexico. That would have been the reason why she went to prison.
Ecuador has been living in an “internal armed conflict” since 2024, declared by President Daniel Noboa to intensify the fight against criminal groups primarily dedicated to drug trafficking and described as “terrorists”.
Authorities attribute the escalation of violence in Ecuador in recent years to the strife between these criminal gangs, which has intensified in 2025, with an average of one murder per hour. EFE
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