In Ecuador, violent drug cartels have arrived from around the world to secure cocaine trafficking routes to the coast and homicide rates have skyrocketed. President Daniel Noboa has pinned his hopes of lowering the violence on heavy police and military deployments across the country. In doing so, his government has been plagued with allegations of human rights abuses, including enforced disappearances.
In a new episode of Fault Lines, Al Jazeera investigates the claim that 51 people have been forcibly disappearing during military operations since early 2024. “For 2024 and 2025, we have 34 preliminary investigations that are currently under way, and 51 victims,” Leonardo Alarcon, the acting attorney general, told Al Jazeera in an exclusive interview.
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