Cooperation with the United States in the area of security begins to show the first results in Ecuador, after months of dialogues between the authorities of both countries, which intensified as of March of this year. The rapprochement coincided with the crisis that the country was going through due to the narco-terrorist attacks of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on the northern border since November of the previous year and that reached its most tense point with the kidnapping and death of three journalists from El Comercio. On March 26, the day of the abduction of the communicators, in Mataje (Esmeraldas), a visit to the highest level of the United States arrived in Quito. It was Joseph P. DiSalvo, military sub-commander, and Liliana Ayalde, foreign policy adviser to the Southern Command. Read more>>
