📍 Forced disappearances, killings and torture: why is Ecuador’s brutal drug war being backed by the west?

The US, EU and Britain have increased their ties with Daniel Noboa’s militarised crackdown, despite reports of widespread rights abusesThe raid began at 4am. As the children slept, soldiers charged into the family home, rifles raised. “They said they were entering under the emergency powers,” says Rosa*, the family’s matriarch, whose name has been changed for fear of retaliation. “They pointed the…