The United States wants to support Ecuador in the fight against drug crime. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday during a visit to the South American country aid worth almost $ 20 million (a good 17 million euros). The funds are to be financed with drones.
Rubio came together in Ecuador’s capital Quito with President Daniel Noboa, who offered US President Donald Trump a collaboration on security issues. With the help of the military against criminal gangs. Rubio expressly praised his approach.
The Trump government has announced drug dealers from Latin America. Trump particularly accuses the left -wing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to control drug gangs like Tren de Aragua.
According to Trump, US armed forces had shot at a venezuela-coming ship with drugs on board and killed eleven crew members. Maduro’s government condemned this as “extrajudicial executions”. Rubio then said in Ecuador that Maduro was a “fleeting of the American judiciary”.
