Andean Group - February 2024

A nationwide criminal uprising on 9 January revealed the ineffectiveness of Ecuador’s security policies of recent years. President Daniel Noboa, who found himself facing a full-blown crisis just two months after he took office in November 2023, has declared that his government is willing to do whatever is necessary to wrest control back from criminal groups. His first step was to declare a state of ‘internal armed conflict’, enabling the total mobilisation of the military across the country. In the first article of this February 2024 edition of the Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group we explore how Noboa plans to take Ecuadorean security policy in a new direction.

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