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  • South American ‘crime tourists’ target the rich in at least half of US states: Thefts ‘way, way up’

    03/24/2024 8:11:58 PM PDT · by bitt · 5 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | 3/24/2024 | Megan Palin
    South American “crime tourists” who exploit the US visa system to enter the country and commit burglaries have now infiltrated at least half the states in America and taken “millions of untraceable” goods, The Post has learned. The organized groups of burglars and jewel thieves, particularly from Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru, have been targeting wealthy homes across the US for decades, but their crimes have spread — and recently soared in some cities, authorities say. “They travel to cities across the nation – including in Maricopa County – and steal millions in untraceable items,” said Maricopa County Attorney Rachel...
  • One dead after Mexican cartel opens fire on illegal immigrants taking Uber across US border without their permission

    03/15/2024 9:21:48 AM PDT · by george76 · 25 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | Mar 10, 2024 | Hayden Cunningham
    The altercation was likely due to the illegal immigrants attempting to cross the border without cartel permission. . Members of a Mexican cartel opened fire on illegal immigrants who were utilizing Uber rides to cross the into the US across southern border unlawfully... The incident occurred in Caborca, an area heavily under the control of Mexican cartels. The victims, all from Ecuador, were traveling in three separate Uber vehicles when they came under attack from the cartel. Tragically, one woman lost her life in the shooting, while four others sustained injuries. According to an internal Border patrol memo leaked to...
  • EVER DOCUMENTARY REVEALING THE ENTIRE ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUTE FROM QUITO, ECUADOR TO THE UNITED STATES

    03/05/2024 6:32:55 PM PST · by cuz1961 · 10 replies
    X ^ | Muckraker
    United States Invasion Route Exposed - FIRST EVER DOCUMENTARY REVEALING THE ENTIRE ILLEGAL ALIEN ROUTE FROM QUITO, ECUADOR TO THE UNITED STATES Muckraker followed the entire mass migration trail from Quito, Ecuador to the United States border, a journey which included: Crossing the Darién Gap. Discovering secret Chinese hotels. Getting smuggled into Mexico by the Sinaloa Cartel. Embedding with a massive caravan. Riding the Mexican Train of Death. And finally, getting kidnapped by the Gulf Cartel. In this documentary, you will learn how the United Nations is executing an industrial scale weaponized migration program and you will see the entire...
  • A MONSTROUS REPTILE RUMORED TO BE LARGEST OF ITS KIND ON EARTH HAS BEEN DISCOVERED IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

    02/27/2024 1:05:48 PM PST · by Red Badger · 46 replies
    The Debrief ^ | FEBRUARY 26, 2024 | MICAH HANKS
    A massive new species of anaconda that could potentially be the largest currently in existence has been uncovered in the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador, according to newly published findings that expand our understanding of these massive snakes and their habitat. The discovery was made during fieldwork by a team of researchers with the University of Queensland, who traveled to the region in search of an undocumented variety of northern green anaconda spoken of by its indigenous residents. According to accounts shared by the Waorani people of the Ecuadorian Amazon, stories of a variety of large anacondas said to exist in...
  • Putin's Bananas Ban Backfires as Russians Told to Grow Their Own Fruit

    02/14/2024 10:38:15 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 54 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 2/14/2024 | Isabel van Brugen
    Russians have been told to grow their own bananas as a shortage looms, days after President Vladimir Putin issued a ban on imports from Ecuador, its largest supplier of the fruit, seemingly over an arms shipment spat. Oleg Knyazkov, the head of the industry expertise center at Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian consumer watchdog, told local news outlet Gazeta that he predicts there will be a nationwide shortage of bananas in a month. He advised Russians to start growing them domestically. His comments come after Putin suspended banana imports from five Ecuadorian companies on February 2, saying the decision was made due...
  • Massive Lost City Found Covered in Vegetation, Site Is ‘Older Than Any Other’ and Could Rewrite American History

    01/20/2024 7:22:24 PM PST · by Red Badger · 43 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Jan. 20, 2024 5:40 pm | By Robert Jonathan, The Western Journal
    With the deployment of airborne laser sensors as well as more traditional excavation techniques, archeologists have discovered evidence of a massive and sophisticated lost city in the dense Amazon rain forest region of eastern Ecuador in the Andes foothills. Lead researcher Stephen Rostain of the National Center for Scientific Research in France told the BBC, “This is older than any other site we know in the Amazon. We have a Eurocentric view of civilization, but this shows we have to change our idea about what is culture and civilization.” According to the survey of about 200 miles in the Amazon,...
  • Ecuador prosecutor investigating TV studio attack shot dead in his vehicle, attorney general says

    01/19/2024 9:19:49 AM PST · by Twotone · 7 replies
    CBS ^ | January 17, 2024 | Staff
    A prosecutor investigating the dramatic live-broadcast armed assault last week on an Ecuadoran television station was shot dead Wednesday, the country's attorney general said. "In the face of the murder of our colleague Cesar Suarez... I am going to be emphatic: organized crime groups, criminals, terrorists will not stop our commitment to Ecuadoran society," Attorney General Diana Salazar said in a statement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Local media broadcast images of Suarez's truck with bullet holes through the driver's window on a street in the port city of Guayaquil, the nerve center of Ecuador's war against...
  • Ancient ‘lost valley of cities’ found in Amazon rainforest

    01/12/2024 1:17:18 PM PST · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Global News ^ | Posted January 12, 2024 3:14 pm | By Kathryn Mannie
    This LIDAR image provided by researchers in January 2024 shows complexes of rectangular platforms arranged around low squares and distributed along wide dug streets at the Kunguints site, Upano Valley in Ecuador. Antoine Dorison, Stéphen Rostain via AP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A study based on over 20 years of research into an ancient site in the Amazon rainforest has revealed evidence it was once a large-scale hub of interconnected cities that date back more than 2,500 years. The findings were published Thursday in the journal Science and detail the researchers’ work in mapping the network of settlements, which may be the earliest...
  • Ecuador erupts in 'civil war' with cartel thugs: President orders the army onto streets as crazed criminals rampage through cities - with TV station seized, university attacked and jail guards executed following escape of mob boss

    01/09/2024 9:55:03 PM PST · by Red Badger · 32 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 21:06 EST, 9 January 2024 | By CHRIS MATTHEWS
    Ecuador has erupted into a 'civil war' with cartel thugs after the president ordered the army onto the streets and declared a state of 'internal armed conflict'. Crazed criminals have rampaged through the South American country's cities today after President Daniel Noboa, 36, ordered a state of emergency. Hooded gangsters seized a state TV news studio today, while a university was attacked and jail guards reportedly executed by prisoners. Ecuador has been rocked by a series of attacks including explosions and the abduction of several police officers after the government imposed a state of emergency in the wake of the...
  • Chaos In Ecuador: Drug Gangs Wreak Havoc Across The Country

    01/09/2024 5:03:12 PM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 12 replies
    www.forbes.com ^ | Jan 9, 2024 | Elias Ferrer Breda
    A group of armed men took over the station of TC Televisión, in Guayaquil, Ecuador at 2 pm local time. They attempted to take the staff inside hostage. Ecuador’s national police have already taken the TV station back, as shown in an announcement with pictures of the attackers in cuffs on the ground. The attack comes amidst President Daniel Noboa’s crackdown on organized crime. He is under two months into his term, though the president had committed to oppose drug cartels from the start.
  • Ecuador TV studio taken over live on air by masked people brandishing guns

    01/09/2024 12:58:45 PM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 13 replies
    Reuters via MSN ^ | 1/9/2023 | Reuters
    A live broadcast by Ecuadorean television station TC was interrupted on Tuesday by armed people who obliged staff to lie and sit on the floor, as shots and yelling were heard. The people, wearing balaclavas and largely dressed in black, were seen wielding large guns and accosting huddled staffers on the live feed, which eventually cut out. Some of the invaders gestured at the camera and someone could be heard yelling "no police".
  • Border Patrol apprehends a staggering 19,400 migrants in Lukeville in just ONE WEEK - as African and Ecuadorian nationals flood the US-Mexico border

    12/23/2023 1:34:26 AM PST · by knighthawk · 16 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | December 23 2023 | WILL POTTER
    Border Patrol agents have apprehended a staggering 19,400 migrants at the border in Lukeville, Arizona, as officials continue to struggle to halt the record influx. John R Modlin, the Chief Patrol Agent at the border's Tuscon Sector, said on Friday the almost 20,000 apprehensions included 13 human smuggling events, 15 rescues, six narcotics events, four convicted sex offenders, and 155 federal criminal cases. The US-Mexico border saw 192,000 migrants apprehended in total last month, a rise from the 188,000 that were apprehended in October, US Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens told CNN.
  • OPEC Oil Production Is Headed for Lower for Longer

    11/24/2023 6:15:43 AM PST · by Miami Rebel · 28 replies
    Barron's ^ | 11/23/2023 | Ben Cahill
    It is déjà vu for major oil producers, who are again considering steeper production cuts. It took only a month after the Hamas attacks on Israel unleashed a punishing war for oil prices to fall below their pre-Oct. 7 level. The steep drop in oil prices last week, with Brent crude briefly dropping to $77 per barrel, led to speculation that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allied producers (OPEC+) will decide to cut production at its next meeting. OPEC’s last-minute decision to delay the meeting, now scheduled for Nov. 30, will only add to the speculation. U.S....
  • Ecuador's Drug Lords Are Building "Narco-Zoos" as Status Symbols. The Animals Are Paying the Price.

    11/09/2023 4:57:02 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    A pair of jaguars discovered in a cage on a ranch exposed a cruel new fashion among Ecuador's drug lords. In the style of Colombian cocaine baron Pablo Escobar, they are erecting private, illegal zoos as a status symbol. In May, police came upon the sorry sight of the two endangered felines perched on a log surrounded by iron bars. They were held on a property owned by Wilder Sanchez Farfan — alias "Gato" (The Cat) — a suspected drug lord with ties to Mexico's Jalisco New Generation cartel and wanted in the United States. Farfan was arrested in Colombia...
  • My wife talked to some newly arrived immigrants from Ecuador

    10/23/2023 8:56:19 AM PDT · by MNDude · 53 replies
    My wife was born in Mexico so she is fluent in Spanish. Yesterday she came some immigrants from Ecuador and she began asking them a series of questions. Here's what she learned. These people spoke no English. She said they had just gotten off the bus this week. Some people told them to get onto a bus and come to USA. They did not know who these people inviting them were or what reason they wanted them to come. These immigrants were living inside a Holiday Inn, which of course was being paid for them. The woman from Ecuador said...
  • Another blow for the left: Ecuador elects a conservative new president

    10/16/2023 7:29:04 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/16/2023 | Monica Showalter
    First Australia and New Zealand over the weekend, and now that it's Monday, it's another bad day to wake up a leftist. Over in Ecuador, where an assassination took out a conservative frontrunner to its presidential race just weeks before the vote, another rightwinger stepped up to the plate to openly and directly reject socialism -- and sure enough, got elected, 52.3-47.7.According to the Financial Times:Daniel Noboa has won Ecuador’s presidential election as the South American country battles an unprecedented crime wave and an ailing economy. Noboa, a centre-right former lawmaker, beat leftist rival Luisa González in a run-off election...
  • Another blow to the left: Ecuador elects a conservative new president

    10/16/2023 6:50:49 AM PDT · by NorthernDancer · 7 replies
    American Thinker ^ | October 16, 2023 | Monica Showalter
    First Australia and New Zealand over the weekend, and now that it's Monday, it's another bad day to wake up a leftist. Over in Ecuador, where an assassination took out a conservative frontrunner to its presidential race just weeks before the vote, another rightwinger stepped up to the plate to openly and directly reject socialism -- and sure enough, got elected, 52.3-47.7. According to the Financial Times: Daniel Noboa has won Ecuador’s presidential election as the South American country battles an unprecedented crime wave and an ailing economy. Noboa, a centre-right former lawmaker, beat leftist rival Luisa González in a...
  • Ecuador says six suspects arrested for presidential candidate assassination are Colombian

    10/09/2023 9:46:46 AM PDT · by The_Media_never_lie · 3 replies
    CNN ^ | October 9, 2023 | Ana Canizares, Sahar Akbarzai, Anna Gorzowska and Helen Regan
    02:53 - Source: CNN Quito, Ecuador CNN — Six suspects arrested in connection with the assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombian nationals and gang members, authorities have confirmed, as a former vice president demanded action over spiraling levels of violence in the South American country. Villavicencio, an anti-corruption campaigner and lawmaker who was outspoken about the violence caused by drug trafficking in the country, was shot dead at a campaign rally in the capital Quito on Wednesday. The killing of the 59-year-old came 10 days before the first round of the presidential election was set to take...
  • MSNBC Anchor Alicia Menendez Says She Won't Cover Father's Indictment (Bribery Bob)

    10/02/2023 1:17:28 AM PDT · by Libloather · 10 replies
    Huffington Post ^ | 10/01/23 | Ben Blanchet
    MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez began her program on a “personal note” Saturday as she declared that she’d stay clear of covering the indictment of her father, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). “Last week, a grand jury indicted U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. This past week, dozens of members of his own party have demanded his resignation,” said the MSNBC anchor on her “American Voices” program. “I have been watching, along with all of you, as a citizen and also as his daughter. I will not be reporting on the legal case.” She then pointed to her own network’s reporting as she spoke just...
  • Six suspects in the murder of Ecuador's presidential candidate murdered in prison

    10/06/2023 8:34:25 PM PDT · by Nextrush · 14 replies
    NOS News Netherlands ^ | 10/7/2023 | NOS News
    Six men suspected of killing Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio have been killed in prison. The prison authority in Ecuador reported this in a statement. Ecuadorian President Lasso writes on... Drug violence Villavicencio was shot dead in the capital Quito in August after speaking at a campaign rally, two weeks before the elections. The gunman was killed in a shootout after the attack. Shortly after Villavicencio's murder, six Colombians were arrested. They were linked to the Los Lobos drug gang. It is not clear whether these are also the six suspects who have now been killed. Villavicencio's death shocked the...