Ecuador is grappling with a security crisis that worsened this week with the on-air storming of a TV station, unexplained explosions in several cities & kidnapping of police officers.
This highlights challenges ahead for President Noboa, who took power in Nov after pledging to curb violence as drug trafficking gangs increasingly transport cocaine through Ecuador.
Villavicencio, a vocal critic of corruption & organised crime, was killed on Wednesday. A suspect later died of injuries sustained in shoot-out and 6 others have been arrested.
Reports suggest Nithyananda has set up ‘Hindu nation’ Kailaasa on an island near Ecuador, but the South American country says it never gave asylum to the ‘godman’.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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