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ECUADOR - AFTER THE ISLAND OF PEACE

By Paola Coello · 4 parts · 13 h 23 min · English

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Ecuador was once called an island of peace between Colombia and Peru, the world's largest coca producers. Then its prison gangs became partners of Mexican cartels and suppliers to Balkan buyers, and in 2025 it counted 9,216 killings, the most in its history. This book follows the money behind that turn: a dead trafficker's phone that led to the head of the judiciary, a presidential candidate shot in Quito, cocaine hidden in banana containers, and bribes paid on oil, a Chinese-built dam, a campaign and a police pension fund. Covers José Adolfo Macías and Los Choneros, Wilmer Chavarría and Los Lobos, Leandro Norero and Wilman Terán in the Metástasis case, Carlos Pólit and Odebrecht, Lenín Moreno and Sinohydro, and Gunvor and Petroecuador.

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  1. Part 01

    3:19:43

  2. Part 02

    3:23:48

  3. Part 03

    3:12:45

  4. Part 04

    3:26:17

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