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Posted on 05/18/2026 6:25:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A police source told AFP on Tuesday that the judge had received threats and was killed in retaliation for the release of gang members.
At least 16 judges or prosecutors have been killed in Ecuador since 2022, according to Human Rights Watch. Last October, a gunman on a motorbike killed a judge in Ecuador while he was walking his children to school.
Around 70 percent of the drugs produced by Colombia and Peru, the world's largest and second-largest cocaine producers, respectively, are shipped through Ecuador.
President Daniel Noboa, one of President Donald Trump's staunchest allies on the continent, has prioritized targeting cocaine traffickers since he came to power in 2023.
He has deployed soldiers on the streets and in prisons, launched dramatic raids on drug strongholds, and declared frequent states of emergency...
American commandos recently joined Ecuadorian troops in a joint mission aimed at dismantling a suspected criminal hub operated by an alleged narco-terrorist organization along the country's coast.
The operation, dubbed Lanza Marina, focused on a compound believed to serve as a staging ground for high-speed boats linked to Los Choneros, according to two U.S. officials
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Guards were in on the assassination.
Yep.
I was about to say that this is the type of thing that happens in a Latin American banana republic but then I thought that today, its also the type of thing that could easily happen in the US given how insane the Left has become.
“The release of gang members…”? Liberal judge or were they rival cartel members?
She released gang members. Perhaps it was vigilante justice.
Probably from a rival gang.
We’ve imported many of them.
I feel the same way about “judges” that Luigi the back shooter feels about CEOs.
Deomocrat ,practicing ?
“the judge had received threats and was killed in retaliation for the release of gang members.”
Thank goodness that could never happen here...
My thought exactly.
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